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Delegate (AM 217)



Call sign: November - Charlie - Romeo - Delta



Delegate served the Navies of the United States and the Republic of China.

Admirable Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 27 December 1942 by the Tampa Shipbuilding Co., Tampa, FL; Launched, 28 March 1943; Commissioned USS Delegate (AM 217), 30 April 1945; Decommissioned, 29 May 1946 and turned over to the State Department for transfer to the Republic of China; Reclassified a Patrol Frigate and renamed Yung Ho (PF 53); Yung Ho decommissioned and was struck, 1 September 1962. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 530 t.(lt), 795 t.(fl); Length 184' 6"; Beam 33'; Draft 9' 9"; Speed 15 kts; Complement 104; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, two twin 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 1,710 shp Cooper Bessemer diesel engines, two shafts.


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AM-153/217/225 55k LCI-195, Buoyant (AM 153), Elusive (AM 225), and Delegate on the Whangpoo River, Shanghai, China
c. May 1946.
Michael B. Kirby
AM-217/225 70k Delegate inboard of Elusive (AM 225) on the Whangpoo River, Shanghai, China.
14 May 1946.
Michael B. Kirby

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