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Spectacle (AM 305)



Call sign: November - Quebec - Uniform - Oscar



Admirable Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 24 May 1943 by Associated Shipbuilders, Seattle, WA.; Launched, 1 October 1943; Commissioned USS Spectacle (AM 305), 11 June 1944; Decommissioned, 19 October 1945 at Seattle, WA; Struck from the Naval Register, 5 December 1945; Sold for scrap, April 1947 to Northwest Merchandising Service.

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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