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AM-109 / AGS-18 Requisite



Call sign:
November - Alpha - Tango - Papa

Auk Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 12 November 1941 at Winslow Marine Railway & Shipbuilding Co. Inc., Seattle, WA; Launched, 25 July 1942; Commissioned, 7 June 1943; Decommissioned, 23 December 1947 at Orange, TX; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Texas Group, Orange: Recommissioned, 15 February 1950; Reclassified as a Survey Ship AGS-18, 18 August 1951; Decommissioned, 1 April 1964 at Philadelphia, PA; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 April 1964.
Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 890 t.; Length 221' 3"; Beam 32'; Draft 10' 9"; Speed 14 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 diesel-electric drive, four ALCO diesel engines, two 2,000 hp electric motors, two shafts.


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Requisite 25k Seen here as Requisite (AGS-18)
US Navy photo
R. Parrett, CS2, ex-crew member
Requisite 119k AGS-18 Office of the Oceanographer of the Navy
Requisite 99k AGS-18 at the DEW line.
U.S. Navy Photo from the September 1956 issue of
All Hands
Joe Radigan

View the Requisite (AM-109)
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Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen

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