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Pigeon (MSF 374)
ex-AM-374



Call sign:
November - India - Bravo - Bravo
Auk Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 10 November 1944 by the Savannah Machine and Foundry Co., Savannah, GA; Launched, 28 March 1945; Commissioned USS Pigeon (AM 374), 30 October 1945; Decommissioned, 10 July 1946 at Orange, TX; Recommissioned, 30 November 1950; Decommissioned, 14 January 1955 at Green Cove Springs, FL; Reclassified as a Fleet Minesweeper (Steel Hull), MSF-374, 7 February 1955; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 December 1966 and sold for scrap.

Specifications: Displacement 890 t.; Length 221' 1"; Beam 32' 2"; Draft 10' 9"; Speed 18.1 kts; Complement 117; Armament one 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, two single 40mm gun mounts, six single 20mm gun mounts, one depth charge thrower (hedgehogs), four depth charge projectiles (k-guns), two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two 3,532shp General Motors 12-278A diesel electric drive engines, Westinghouse single reduction gear, two shafts.

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Pigeon 102k . Joe Radigan
Harkness 111k Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, VA
Astern of Harkness (AMCU 12) and Fuel Oil Barge YO-224		 Arthur Gendreau
Pigeon 176k c. November 1950
Recommissioning		 Mario A. Canevaro
Pigeon 159k c. November 1950
Recommissioning		 Mario A. Canevaro
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