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AMc-114
Adopt (AM / MSF 137)

Call sign: November - Bravo - Yankee - Victor

Adopt served the Navies of the United States and the USSR.
Admirable Class Minesweeper: Changed from AMc-114 to AM-137, 21 February 1942; Laid down, 8 April 1942 at Tampa Shipbuilding Co. Inc., Tampa, FL; Launched, 18 October 1942; Commissioned USS Adopt (AM 137), 31 May 1943; Decommissioned, 19 July 1945 and transferred to the USSR under terms of the lend-lease; Renamed T-552; Reclassified Fleet Minesweeper (MSF-136), 7 February 1955; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 January 1958; Destroyed by the Russians by demolition.
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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