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Meadowlark (AMS / MSC 196)

Meadowlark served the Navies of the United States and Indonesia.
Falcon Class Motor Minesweeper: Laid down, 18 May 1953 as AMS-196 by Broward Marine Inc., Fort Lauderdale, FL; Launched, 28 August 1954; Reclassified as a Coastal Minesweeper MSC-196, 7 February
1955; Commissioned USS Meadowlark (MSC 196), 14 May 1955; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Transferred to Indonesia, 1971 and renamed Pulau Alau (M 717); Struck from the Naval Register, 1 May 1976; Sold, 1 September 1976. Fate unknown.
Specifications: Displacement 362 t.; Length 144' 3"; Beam 27' 2"; Draft 12'; Speed 13.6 kts; Complement 39; Armament two .50 cal. machine guns and one 81-mm mortar; Propulsion two 600 shp Packard diesel engines, two
shafts.
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