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AM / MSF-240 Hazard



Call sign:
November - Foxtrot - Oscar - Alpha

Admirable Class Minesweeper: Laid down 20 February 1944 by the Winslow Marine Railway and Shipbuilding Co., Winslow, Wash; Launched 21 May 1944; Commissioned USS Hazard (AM-240) 31 October 1944; Decommissioned 27 July 1946 at Galveston, TX; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Texas Group; Reclassified as a Fleet Minesweeper (Steel Hulled) MSF-240 7 February 1955; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Sold for scrapping, 22 October 1968; Currently on display at Freedom Park, Omaha, Neb.

Specifications: Displacement 650 t.; Length 184' 6"; Beam 93'; Draft 9' 9"; Speed 14.8 kts; Complement 104; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, two single 40mm gun mounts (changed to twin mounts after WW II), six single 20mm gun mounts (changed to twin mounts after WW II), four .30 cal. machine guns (and two "unofficial" .50 cal. machine guns),one depth charge thrower (hedgehogs), two depth charge projectiles (K-guns), two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two 900hp 12 cylinder Cooper Bessemer diesel engines, two shafts.


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Hazard 82k US Navy photo Brian M. Kirchhoff
Freedom Park Inc.
Hazard 62k - Brian M. Kirchhoff
Freedom Park Inc.
Hazard 75k - Brian M. Kirchhoff
Freedom Park Inc.
Hazard 22k - Brian M. Kirchhoff
Freedom Park Inc.

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U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

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Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
Historic Naval Ship Association

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