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Accentor (AMc-36)
Call sign:
November - Alpha - Echo - Oscar
Accentor Class Coastal Minesweeper: Laid down, 21 January 1941 at W. A. Robinson, Inc., Ipswich, Mass.; Launched, 10 May 1941; Commissioned 24 July 1941 at Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, MA; Decommissioned, 1 September 1942 at Annapolis, Md. and placed in service; Placed out of service, 14 June 1946; Struck from the Naval Register 3 July 1946; Transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal in October 1946; Sold to Higgins, Inc. of New Orleans, La and delivered 9 October 1946. Fate unknown.
Specifications: Displacement 221 t.(fl); Length 97' 6"; Beam 22' 6"; Draft 8' 11"; Speed 10 kts; Complement 17; Armament two .50 cal. machine guns; Propulsion one 400bhp Cooper Bessemere G. N.-8-STB diesel engine, one shaft.
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Chesapeake Bay, 8 June 1943.
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