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Murrelet (AM / MSF 372)



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Call sign:
November - Hotel - Zulu - Xray



Murrelet served the Navies of the United States and the Philippines.

Auk Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 24 August 1944 at the Savannah Machine and Foundry Co., Savannah, GA; Launched, 29 December 1944; Commissioned USS Murrelet (AM 372), 24 August 1945; Reclassified Fleet Minesweeper (Steel-hulled) (MSF-372), 7 February 1955; Decommissioned, 14 March 1957; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 December 1964; Transferred to the Philippines, 18 June 1965 and renamed Rizal (PCE 69); Reclassified a Patrol Corvette PS-69, (date unknown). Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 890 t.; Length 221' 1"; Beam 32' 2"; Draft 10' 9"; Speed 18 kts; Complement 117; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, two twin 40mm gun mounts, (After transfer to Philippine Navy a second 3"/50 was added along with two additional 40mm, and four 20mm); Propulsion diesel-electric drive, two General Motors diesel engines, two shafts.


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Murrelet 79k Murrelet (AM 372) Frank Hall
Murrelet 52k Murrelet (AM 372) Frank Hall
Murrelet 97k U.S. Navy photo from the May 1953 issue of All Hands magazine Joe Radigan
Rizal 53k Rizal (PS 69) c. 1971.
Philippine Navy Photo
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