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Marabout (AMc 50)

Call sign:
Nan - Easy - Zebra - Fox

Accentor Class Coastal Minesweeper: Laid down 20 December 1940 by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Co., Bristol, RI; Launched, 17 February 1941; Commissioned USS Marabout (AMc 50), 8 July 1941; Decommissioned, 29 May 1946 at Boston, MA; Transferred to the Maritime Commission; Sold 31 July 1946 to the City of Boston for service as a fireboat and renamed Joseph J. Luna after a Boston Fire Fighter killed in WWII; Taken out of service in 1972.
Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 200 t.; Length 97' 1"; Beam 22'; Draft 9'; Speed 10 kts.; Complement 17; Armament two .50 cal. machine guns; Propulsion one 400bhp Superior K. N. B. diesel engine, one shaft.

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U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation

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Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen

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