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Flicker (AM 70)
IX-165


Flicker Class Minesweeper: Laid down in 1937 as the Fishing Trawler Delaware by the Bath Iron Works, Bath, ME; Acquired by the Navy, 9 August 1940; Renamed Flicker, 14 August 1940; Conversion to a Minesweeper started, 9 August 1940 at the Bethlehem Steel Co., Boston, MA; Commissioned Flicker (AM 70), 26 October 1940; Conversion completed, 26 March 1941; Reclassified as an Unclassified Miscellaneous Auxiliary IX-165, 11 April 1944; Decommissioned, 3 January 1945; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Transferred to the Maritime Commission, 31 March 1945. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 510 t.; Length 147' 5"; Beam 25'; Draft 12'; Speed 13 kts; Complement unknown; Armament one single 3"/23 gun mount; Propulsion one 735 shp Fairbanks Morse diesel engine. one shaft.
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U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

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Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen

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