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Shelter (AM / MSF 301)



Call sign:
November - Quebec - Tango - Quebec



Shelter served the Navies of the United States and South Vietnam.

Admirable Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 16 August 1943 by the Winslow Marine Railway and Shipbuilding Co., Winslow, WA; Launched, 14 November 1943; Commissioned USS Shelter (AM 301), 9 July 1944; Decommissioned, 7 June 1946 at Orange, TX; Reclassified as a Fleet Minesweeper (Steel-hulled) MSF-301, 7 February 1955; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 August 1963; Transferred to South Vietnam, 24 January 1964 and renamed Chi Linh (HQ 11).
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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Shelter 84k . Paul Pixley
Shelter 63k . Paul Pixley
Shelter 528k Shelter's Track from commissioning 9 July 1944 at Winslow, WA
to decommissioning 7 June 1946 at Orange, TX.
Paul Pixley

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U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

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Association of Minemen
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