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Prowess (AM / MSF 280)
IX-305

Prowess served the Navies of the United States and South Vietnam.
Admirable Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 15 September 1943 by the Gulf Shipbuilding Corp., Chickasaw, AL; Launched, 17 February 1944; Commissioned USS Prowess (AM 280), 27 September 1944; Decommissioned, December 1945 and placed in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet; Reclassified a Fleet Minesweeper (Steel-hulled) MSF-280, 7 February 1955; Recommissioned, (date unknown); Reclassified a Miscellaneous Auxiliary IX-305, 1 March 1966; Decommissioned, February 1962; Transferred to South Vietnam, 4 June 1970 and renamed Ha Hoi (HQ 13); Struck from the Naval Register, 1970. Fate unknown.
Specifications: Displacement 945 t.; Length 184' 6"; Beam 33'; Draft 9' 9"; Speed 14 kts; Complement 80; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, two twin 40mm gun mounts, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two 1,710 bhp Cooper Bessemer diesel engines, two shafts.
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