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PCE-907
Gavia (AM 363)

Call sign: November - Hotel - Zulu - Foxtrot

Gavia served the Navies of the United States and the Republic of China.
Admirable Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 8 July 1943 as PCE-907 by the Willamette Iron and Steel Corp., Portland, Oregon; Launched, 18 September 1943; Reclassified as a Minesweeper AM-363, 27 September 1943; Commissioned, USS Gavia (AM 363), 23 July 1945; Demilitarized at Subic Bay, 19 March 1946; Decommissioned, 29 May 1946 at Shanghai, China and turned over to the State Department for transfer to the Chinese Maritime Customs and renamed Yung Chun (AM 52); Struck from the Naval Register, 19 July 1946; Yung Chun decommissioned and was struck, 1 July 1962.
Specifications: Displacement 540 t.(lt), 795 t.(fl); Length 184' 6"; Beam 33'; Draft 9' 9"; Speed 15 kts; Complement 104; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, two twin 40mm gun mounts, six single 20mm gun mounts, one depth charge thrower (hedgehogs), four depth charge projectiles (k-guns), two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two 1,710 shp Busch Sulzer diesel engines, twin shafts.
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