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Incredible (AM / MSF 249)



Call sign:
November - Golf - Hotel - Xray

Admirable Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 9 September 1943 by the Savannah Machine and Foundry Co., Savannah, GA.; Launched, 21 November 1943; Commissioned USS Incredible (AM-249), 17 April 1944; Decommissioned, 28 November 1947 at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA; Placed in service, out of commission from 28 November 1947 to 28 September 1949 at Yokosuka, Japan; Recommissioned, 14 August 1950 at Yokosuka, Japan; Decommissioned, 21 September 1954 at Long Beach, CA; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Long Beach Group; Reclassified a Fleet Minesweeper (Steel-hulled) MSF-249, 7 February 1955; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 December 1959; Sold for scrapping, 8 August 1960 to National Metal and Steel Corp.

Specifications: Displacement 650 t.; Length 184' 6"; Beam 93'; Draft 9' 9"; Speed 14.8 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 855shp Cooper Bessemer diesel engines, two shafts.


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Incredible 80k Flying a "Homeward Bound" pennant, probably upon her departure from Japanese waters in about July 1951.
US Navy Photo 80-G-437698
Naval Historical Center
Incredible 117k Probably photographed circa July 1951, while en route to the U.S. following minesweeping service off Korea. Location appears to be Pearl Harbor, with Ford Island Naval Air Station in the background.
US Navy Photo NH 73146
Naval Historical Center
Incredible 76k In dry dock at Yokosuka, Japan All Hands magazine
September 1951
Incredible 80k Underway off San Diego, California, circa 1951-53.
US Navy Photo NH 96908
Naval Historical Center

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Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

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Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen

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