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Pledge (AM 277)

Call sign: November - Papa - Yankee - Yankee
Admirable Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 1 July 1943 by the Gulf Ship Building Co., Chickasaw, AL.; Launched, 23 December 1943; Commissioned USS Pledge (AM 277), 29 July 1944; Struck a mine and sank, 10 October 1950 off Wonsan, Korea; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown).
Specifications: Displacement 625 t.; Length 184' 6"; Beam 33'; 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, three depth charge projectiles, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two 1,710 shp Cooper Bessemer diesel engines, two shafts.
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