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AM / MSF-386 Tercel


Auk Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 16 May 1944 by American Shipbuilding Co., Lorain O; Launched, 16 December 1944; Commissioned USS Tercel (AM-386), 21 August 1945; Decommissioned, 10 November 1954 at Orange Tx; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Texas Group, Orange; Redesignated Fleet Minesweeper (Steel-hulled) (MSF-386), 7 February 1955; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 July 1972; Final Disposition, sold for scrapping.

Specifications: Displacement 890 t.; Length 221' 3"; Beam 32'; Draft 10' 9"; Speed 18 kts; Complement 105; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, two twin 40mm gun mounts, two single 20mm gun mounts, two depth charge tracks, five depth charge projectiles; Propulsion, diesel.
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Tanager 14k 1953 Marseille France, left to right
AM-114 Staff
AM-388 Towhee
AM-385 Tanager
AM-386 Tercel
Bob Gerety,
AM-385 crew member
Bob's Minesweeper Site
Tercel 55k US Navy photo Albert J. Flis, (RM2)
crew member, 1953/1954
Tercel 74k US Navy photo Albert J. Flis, (RM2)
crew member, 1953/1954
Tercel 57k US Navy photo Albert J. Flis, (RM2)
crew member, 1953/1954

View the Tercel (AM/MSF-386)
DANFS history entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway web site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

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Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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