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Fidelity (AM 96)
PC-1600

PC-1600 call sign:
November - Alpha - Golf - Papa
Adroit Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 15 October 1941 by the Nashville Bridge Co., Nashville, TN; Launched, 28 February 1942; Commissioned Fidelity (AM 96), 9 September 1942; Reclassified as a Submarine Chaser PC-1600, 1 June 1944; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Transferred to the Maritime Commission, 15 June 1948 and sold to Charles Weaver; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown). Fate unknown. PC-1600 earned two battle stars for World War II service.
Specifications: Displacement 295 t.; Length 173' 8"; Beam 23'; Draft 11' 7"; Speed 17 kts; Complement 66; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount; Propulsion, two 1,440 bhp Busch-Sulzer BS 539 diesel engines (Serial Nos. BS1141 & BS1142), two shafts.
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