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PCE-908
Fixity (AM 235)



Call sign: November - Delta - Hotel - Foxtrot



Admirable Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 12 May 1944 as PCE-908 by the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Co., Seattle, WA; Launched, 4 September 1944; Commissioned USS Fixity (AM 235), 29 December 1944; Decommissioned, 6 November 1946 at Bremerton, WA; Transferred to the Maritime Commission, 23 January 1948; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown). Fate unknown. Fixity earned two battle stars for World War II service.

Specifications: Displacement 530 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 Cooper Bessemer diesel engines, two shafts.
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