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Tapacola (IX 230)
ex-AMc-54



Call sign:
November - Whiskey - Golf - Lima

Accentor Class Coastal Minesweeper: Laid down, 10 January 1941 by the Snow Shipyards, Rockland, ME; Launched, 3 June 1941; Commissioned USS Tapacola (AMc 54), 20 September 1941; Reclassified as an Unclassified Miscellaneous Auxiliary IX-230, 10 August 1945; Decommissioned 28 May 1946; Struck from the Naval Register 29 October 1946 and sold. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 275 t.; Length 98' 5"; Beam 23' 7"; Draft 10' 8"; Speed 10 kts.; Complement 17; Armament one .50 cal. machine gun; Propulsion one 450bhp Fairbanks-Morse 35-F-14 diesel engine, one shaft.

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