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Specifications: Displacement 890 t.; Length 221' 3"; Beam 32'; Draft 10' 9"; Speed 18 kts; Complement 105; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, two twin 40mm gun mounts, two single 20mm gun mounts, two depth charge tracks, five depth charge projectiles; Propulsion two General Motors diesel engines, two shafts.
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73k | 8 October 1952 Laertes (AR-20) at Sasebo, Japan, with nine minesweepers and a harbor tug alongside. Ships nested from left to right are: Impeccable (AM-320), Gladiator, Shoveler (AM-382), Defense (AM-317), and Devastator (AM-318), Laertes, Condor (AMS-5), Kite (AMS-22), Curlew (AMS-8), Chatterer (AMS-40), and Wallacut (YTB-420). US Navy photo 80-G-63229. |
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178k | . | USS Gladiator (MCM 11) Web Site | |
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74k | ARM Santos Degollado (P 106) Mexican Navy Photo |
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