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AMc-136
Change (AM / MSF 159)

Call sign: November - India - Mike - Delta
Admirable Class Minesweeper: Changed from AMc-136 to AM-159, 21 February 1942; Laid down, 23 May 1942 by the Willamette Iron and Steel Corp., Portland, OR; Launched, 15 December 1942; Commissioned USS Change (AM 159), 28 February 1944; Decommissioned, 3 July 1946 at New Orleans, LA; Reclassified Fleet Minesweeper (Steel Hull) MSF-159, 7 February 1955; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Scrapped in 1960.
Specifications: Displacement 650 t.; Length 184' 6"; Beam 33'; Draft 9' 9"; Speed 14.8 kts; Complement 104; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, two twin 40mm gun mounts, one depth charge thrower (hedgehogs), two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two 1,710 shp ALCO diesel engines, two shafts.
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