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Defiance (AMc 73)



Call sign:
November - Foxtrot - Bravo - Uniform



Accentor Class Coastal Minesweeper: Laid down, (date and place unknown); Launched, June 1941; Placed in service as USS Defiance (AMc 73), 1941; Placed out of service, 1945; Struck from the Naval Register, 1946. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 195 t.; Length 97'; Beam 22'; Draft 9'; Speed 10 kts.; Complement 19; Armament two
machine guns.
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