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Loyalty (AMc 88)
Call sign:
November - Uniform - Romeo - India
Destroyed 12 January 1946
Accentor Class Coastal Minesweeper: Laid down, 8 May 1941 by F. L. Fulton, Antioch, CA; Launched, 23 August 1941; Placed in service as USS Loyalty (AMc 88), 17 January 1942; Converted to an underwater location ship and commissioned USS Loyalty (AMc 88), 15 December 1944; Decommissioned, 4 December 1945; Struck a reef and grounded 16 September 1945 while en route to Unten Ko, Okinawa; Struck from the Naval Register, 19 December 1945; Destroyed, 12 January 1946.
Specifications: Displacement 228 t.; Length 97' 1"; Beam 22'; Draft 9' 1"; Speed 10 kts.; Complement 17; Armament two .50 cal. machine guns; Propulsion one 400bhp Atlas 6 HM-2124 diesel engine, one shaft.
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