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Gadwall (AM / MSF 362)

Call sign: November - Hotel - Zulu - Delta
Admirable Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 24 May 1943 by the Willamette Iron and Steel Corp., Portland, OR.; Launched, 15 July 1943; Commissioned USS Gadwall (AM 362), 26 December 1945; Decommissioned, 14 June 1946 at Orange, TX; Reclassified as a Fleet Minesweeper (Steel-hulled), MSF-362, 7 February 1955; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 November 1966; Stripped and designated for sale, 10 April 1967. Fate unknown.
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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