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AM/MSF-388 / AGS-28 Towhee



Call sign:
November - India - Golf - Hotel



Auk Class Minesweeper: Laid down 21 March 1944 by American Shipbuilding Co., Cleveland, Ohio; Launched, 6 January 1945; Commissioned USS Towhee (AM-388), 18 May 1945; Decommissioned, March 1954 at Orange, Tx; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Orange Group; Redesignated a Fleet Minesweeper (Steel-hulled) (MSF-388), 7 February 1955; Converted to a Survey Ship at Philadelphia, Pa. and recommissioned USS Towhee (AGS-28), 1 April 1964; Decommissioned, 30 April 1969; Custody transferred to Inactive Ship Facility, Vallejo, Ca; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 May 1969; Sold for scrapping to Learner Co., Oakland, Ca., 6 March 1970.

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 dct charge tracks, five depth charge projectiles; Propulsion two 3,532 shp General Motors diesel engines, two shafts.
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Tanager 14k 1953 Marseille, France, left to right
AM-114 Staff
AM-388 Towhee
AM-385 Tanager
AM-386 Tercel
Bob Gerety,
AM-385 crew member
Bob's Minesweeper Site
Towhee 77k AGS-28 Office of the Oceanographer of the Navy

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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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