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AM / MSF-116 Speed



Call sign: November - Bravo - Alpha - Golf



Auk Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 17 November 1941 at American Ship Building Co., Cleveland, OH; Launched, 18 April 1942; Commissioned USS Speed (AM-116), 15 October 1942; Decommissioned, 7 June 1946; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego, CA; Reclassified a Fleet Minesweeper (Steel-hulled) MSF-116, 7 February 1955; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Transferred to South Korea, November 1967, renamed Sunchon (PCE-1002). Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 890 t.; Length 221' 3"; Beam 32'; Draft 10' 9"; Speed 18 kts; Complement 105; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, two twin 40mm gun mounts, two single 20mm gun mounts, two depth charge tracks, five depth charge projectiles; Propulsion General Motors diesel engines, 3,532shp, two shafts.
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Speed 87k World War II photo. Gear for sweeping contact and magnetic mines is mounted on her
fantail. A hedgehog projector is mounted forward, with K-guns and depth-charge tracks aft.
DANFS

View the Speed (AM-116)
DANFS history entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway web site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen

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