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Scurry (AM / MSF 304)

Call sign: November - Quebec - Sierra - Foxtrot
Admirable Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 24 May 1943 by Associated Shipbuilders, Seattle, WA.; Launched, 1 October 1943; Commissioned USS Skurry (AM 304), 29 July 1944; Renamed Scurry, 3 August 1944; Decommissioned, 29 June 1946 at Orange, TX; Reclassified as a Fleet Minesweeper (Steel-hulled), MSF-304, 7 February 1955; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 May 1967 and converted to a salvage training hulk; Sunk off the Virginia Capes, 14 August 1967.
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 dcpth charge tracks; Propulsion two two 1,710 bhp Cooper Bessemer diesel engines, two shafts.
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