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Ruddy (AM / MSF 380)



Call sign: November - India - Delta - Alpha



Ruddy served the Navies of the United States and Peru.

Auk Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 24 February 1944 by the Gulf Shipbuilding Corp., Chickasaw, AL; Launched, 29 October 1944; Commissioned, 28 April 1945; Decommissioned 15 January 1947 at San Diego, CA.; Recommissioned, 12 March 1952; Redesignated Fleet Minesweeper (Steel-hulled) MSF-380, 10 February 1955; Decommissioned 31 August 1956 at San Diego, CA.; Transferred, 1 November 1960 to Peru under the terms of the military assistance program; Renamed Galvez; Struck from the Naval Register, 17 May 1974. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 890 t.(lt); Length 221' 2"; Beam 32' 3"; Draft 11'; Complement 105; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, two 40mm; Propulsion two 1,791 shp General Motors diesel engine, two shafts.


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Ruddy 33k US Navy photo Hyperwar US Navy in WWII
Ruddy 71k . Frank Hall

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