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Pochard (AM / MSF 375)

Call sign: November - India - Bravo - Echo
Auk Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 2 October 1944 by the Savannah Machine and Foundry Co., Savannah, GA; Launched, 11 June 1944; Commissioned USS Pochard (AM 375), 27 November 1944; Decommissioned, 15 January 1947 at San Diego, CA; Recommissioned, 27 February 1952; Reclassified as a Fleet Minesweeper (Steel Hull) MSF-375, 7 February 1955; Decommissioned, 3 August 1955 at Green Cove Springs, FL; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 December 1966 and sold for scrap.
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 3,532 bhp General Motors diesel engines, two shafts.
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