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Ptarmigan (MSF 376)
ex-AM-376



Call sign:
November - India - Bravo - Hotel


Ptarmigan served the Navies of the United States and the Republic of Korea.
Auk Class Minesweeper:

  • Laid down 9 March 1944 by the Savannah Machine and Foundry Co., Savannah, GA
  • Launched 15 July 1944
  • Commissioned USS Ptarmigan (AM 376), 15 January 1945
    Naval Vessel Register of 1 January 1949 lists plan for decommissioning and placing in reserve as December 1945
  • Decommissioned 3 June 1946 at San Pedro, CA
  • Recommissioned 28 October 1950
  • Reclassified as a Fleet Minesweeper (Steel Hull), MSF-376, 7 February 1955
  • Decommissioned 17 May 1957 at Astoria, OR
  • Struck from the Naval Register 1 July 1963
  • Transferred to the Republic of Korea 25 July 1963 and renamed Shin Song (PCE 1001)
  • Struck from the Navy Register in 1984
  • Fate unknown.

    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 projector (hedgehog), four depth charge projectors (k-guns) and two depth charge tracks
  • Propulsion: Two 1,766shp General Motors 12-278A diesel electric drive engines, Westinghouse single reduction gear, two shafts.
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    USS Ptarmigan (MSF 376)
    Ptarmigin 188k . Don Sparks
    Ptarmigin 68k Under conversion to a Patrol Craft for South Korea
    Ptarmagin 98k
    Ptarmagin 65k
    ROKN Shin Song (PCE 1001)
    Ptarmagin 45k c. 1964 Robert Hurst
    Commanding Officers
    01LT Alexander B. Barrett, USN15 January 1945
    ??LT Robert Dale Wood, USN.
    Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves
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