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AM / MSF-118 Steady



Call sign:
November - Bravo - Foxtrot - Juliet



Steady served the Navies of the United States and Taiwan

Auk Class Minesweeper: Laid down 17 November 1941 by the American Shipbuilding Co., Cleveland, OH; Launched 6 June 1942; Commissioned USS Steady (AM 118), 16 November 1942; Decommissioned 18 June 1946 at San Diego, CA; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego Group; Reclassified a Fleet Minesweeper (Steel-hulled) (MSF-118), 7 February 1955; Struck from the Naval Register 18 February 1968; Transferred to Taiwan and commissioned Ping Jin (PCE-70), 30 May 1968; Redesignated PCE-870; Sunk in 1970.

Specifications: Displacement 890 t.; Length 221' 3"; Beam 32'; Draft 10' 9"; Speed 18 kts; Complement 105; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, two twin 40mm gun mounts, two single 20mm gun mounts, two depth charge tracks, five depth charge projectiles; Propulsion, two General Motors 12-278A diesel engines, two shafts, 3,530 hp.


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Steady 60k Launching Historical Collections of the Great Lakes
Steady 79k Photographed 20 November 1942, four days after
her commissioning.
Courtesy of the U.S. Coast Guard.
U.S. Navy Photo NH 89415
Naval Historical Center
Steady 81k Photographed 20 November 1942, four days after her commissioning. Note that this ship does not have the two smokestacks typical of others of her class.
Courtesy of the U.S. Coast Guard.
U.S. Navy Photo NH 89416
Naval Historical Center
Steady 133k Off Sicily, during the invasion there, 12 July 1943. Photographed from USS Ancon (AGC-4). Note that this ship lacks the pair of bulky smokestacks that were typical of Raven/Auk class minesweepers. Also note diamond marking on her side.
U.S. Navy Photo 80-G-215098
Naval Historical Center
am-114 95k Strive (AM-117), Sustain (AM-119), Steady, and Staff (AM-114) (listed from left to right). Moored together, circa early 1946, probably at San Pedro or San Diego, California.
Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1974.
U.S.Navy Photo NH 79735
Naval Historical Center
Ping Jin 64k Seen here as Ping Jin (PCE 870) -

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Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

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Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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