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Cruise (AM / MSF 215)

Call sign: November - Charlie - Quebec - Bravo
Admirable Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 7 December 1942 by the Tampa Shipbuilding Co., Tampa, FL; Launched, 21 March 1943; Commissioned USS Cruise (AM 215), 21 September 1945; Decommissioned, 5 September 1946 at Philadelphia, PA; Reclassified as a Fleet Minesweeper (Steel Hull) MSF-214, 7 February 1955; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 July 1972; Sold for scrap, 1 March 1973.
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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