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Pigeon (AM / MSF 374)



Call sign: November - India - Bravo - Bravo



Auk Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 10 November 1944 by the Savannah Machine and Foundry Co., Savannah, GA; Launched, 28 March 1945; Commissioned USS Pigeon (AM 374), 30 October 1945; Decommissioned, 10 July 1946 at Orange, TX; Recommissioned, 30 November 1950; Decommissioned, 14 January 1955 at Green Cove Springs, FL; Reclassified as a Fleet Minesweeper (Steel Hull) MSF-374, 7 February 1955; 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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