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Diploma (AM / MSF 221)



Call sign: November - Charlie - Victor - November



Admirable Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 1 July 1943 by the Tampa Shipbuilding Co., Tampa, FL; Launched, 21 May 1944; Commissioned USS Diploma (AM 221), 15 July 1944; Decommissioned, 3 September 1946 at Orange, TX; Reclassified as a Fleet Minesweeper (Steel Hull) MSF-221, 7 February 1955; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown). Fate unknown. Diploma received three 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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