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Dipper (AM / MSF 357)



Call sign: November - Hotel - Yankee - Romeo

Admirable Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 19 November 1943 by the Willamette Iron and Steel Corp., Portland, OR.; Launched, 26 July 1944; Commissioned USS Dipper (AM 357), 26 December 1945; Decommissioned, 15 January 1947 at San Diego, CA; Reclassified as a Fleet Minesweeper (Steel-hulled), MSF-357, 7 February 1955; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Sold for scrap 5 January 1961.

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 1,710 bhp Busch Sulzer Brothers diesel engines, two shafts.


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