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Harlequin (AM / MSF 365)



Call sign: November - Hotel - Zulu - Juliet



Harlequin served the Navies of the United States and Mexico.

Admirable Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 3 August 1943 by the Willamette Iron and Steel Corp., Portland, OR.; Launched, 3 June 1944; Commissioned USS Harlequin (AM 365), 31 August 1945; Decommissioned, 27 May 1946 at Orange, TX; Reclassified as a Fleet Minesweeper (Steel-hulled), MSF-365, 7 February 1955; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 May 1962; Sold, 2 October 1962 to Mexico; Renamed DM-20. Fate unknown.

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 bhp Busch Sulzer Brothers diesel engines, two shafts.
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