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Astute (AM / MSF 148)

Call sign: November - Echo - Quebec - Alpha

Astute served the Navies of the United States and the USSR.
Admirable Class Minesweeper: Changed from AMc-125 to AM-148, 21 February 1942; Laid down, 7 December 1942 by the Tampa Shipbuilding Co. Inc., Tampa, FL; Launched, 23 February 1943; Commissioned USS Astute (AM 148), 17 January 1944; Decommissioned, 18 July 1945 at Cold Bay, AK and transferred to the USSR under terms of the lend-lease; Renamed T-523; Reclassified Fleet Minesweeper (Steel Hull) MSF-148, 7 February 1955; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 January 1983. Fate unknown.
Specifications: Displacement 650 t.; Length 184' 6"; Beam 33'; Draft 9' 9"; Speed 14.8 kts; Complement 104; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, two twin 40mm gun mounts, one depth charge thrower (hedgehogs), two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two 1,710 shp ALCO diesel engines, two shafts.
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