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Sheldrake (AM 62)
AGS-19

Call sign: November - Bravo - Mike - Charlie
Auk Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 24 June 1941 by the General Engineering and Dry Dock Co., Alameda, CA; Launched, 12 February 1942; Commissioned USS Sheldrake (AM 62), 14 October 1942; Decommissioned, 31 May 1946 at San Diego, CA; Recommissioned, 14 April 1952 and converted to an Oceanographic Survey Ship AGS-19 at New York; Struck from the Naval Register, 30 June 1968; Decommissioned, 1 August 1968 at Pearl Harbor, HI; Sold for scrapping, 2 November 1971 to Flynn-Learner of Honolulu, HI.
Specifications: Displacement 810 t.; Length 221' 6"; Beam 32' 2"; Draft 10' 9"; Speed 18.1 kts; Complement 105; Armament two single 3"/50 gun mounts, two twin 40mm gun mounts, two .30 cal. machine guns, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two 3,118 shp ALCO diesel engines, two shafts.
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