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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; Laid up 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; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet; Loaned to Peru under the Military Assistance Program 1 November 1960 as 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 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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for full size image		 Size Image Description Source
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
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