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Shoveler (MSF-382)
ex-AM-382



Call sign:
November - India - delta - Hotel


Shoveler served the Navies of the United States and Peru.
Auk Class Minesweeper:

  • Laid down 1 April 1944 by the Gulf Shipbuilding Corp., Chickasaw, AL
  • Launched 10 December 1944
  • Commissioned USS Shoveler (AM-382), 22 May 1945
  • Decommissioned and placed in reserve 5 November 1946 at San Pedro, CA in the Pacific Reserve Fleet
  • Recommissioned 24 July 1951
  • Reclassified as a Fleet Minesweeper (Steel Hull), MSF-382, 7 February 1955
  • Decommissioned and placed in reserve 28 September 1956 at San Diego, CA in the Pacific Reserve Fleet
  • Loaned to Peru under the Military Assistance Program 1 November 1960 and renamed Diez Canseco (MSF-69)
  • Permanently transferred to Peru 1 May 1974
  • Struck from the Navy Register 17 May 1974
  • 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 thrower (hedgehogs), four depth charge projectors (k-guns) and 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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    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    USS Shoveler (AM 382)
    Shoveler 64k . Joe Radigan
    Shoveler 127k c. 1946 Mike Willmann
    Shoveler 110k c. 1946 Mike Willmann
    Shoveler 163k c. 1946
    Port side bridge wing    		 Mike Willmann
    Shoveler 90k c. 1946
    Port side bridge wing and flag bags    		 Mike Willmann
    Shoveler 67k c. 1946
    Port side 40mm mount    		 Mike Willmann
    Shoveler 112k Photographed circa 1951-52, shortly after she was recommissioned for Korean War service.
    U.S. Navy photo NH 96910    		 Naval Historical Center
    Defense 73k 8 October 1952
    Laertes (AR-20) at Sasebo, Japan, with nine minesweepers and a harbor tug alongside. Ships nested to left of Laertes are (from left): Impeccable (AM-320); Gladiator (AM-319); Shoveler; Defense (AM-317) and Devastator (AM-318). Those nested to right are (from left): Condor (AMS-5); Kite (AMS-22); Curlew (AMS-8); Chatterer (AMS-40) and Wallacut (YTB-420)
    National Archives photo 80-G-63229    		 Naval Historical Center
    Diez Canesco (MSF-69)
    Shoveler 61k Peruvian Navy photo from the 1961/1962 edition of "Jane's Fighting Ships" Robert Hurst
    Commanding Officers
    01LCDR Edward H. Jones, Jr., USNR22 May 1945 - January 1946
    02LCDR Victor Delano, USNJanuary 1946
    ??LCDR Harvey Earl Toponce, USN.
    ??LCDR Carl Raymond Quanstrom, Jr., USN.
    Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves
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