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Saunter (AM 295)

Call sign: November - Quebec - Oscar - November
Admirable Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 23 November 1942 by the Winslow Marine Railway and Ship Building Co., Seattle, WA; Launched, 20 February 1943; Commissioned USS Saunter (AM 295), 22 January 1944; Decommissioned, 27 October 1945; Struck from the Naval Register, 13 November 1945; Transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal, 24 April 1946. 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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