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AMc-113
AM / MSF-136 Admirable



Call sign: November - Bravo - Xray - Zulu



Admirable served the Navies of the United States and the USSR.

Admirable Class Minesweeper: Changed from AMc-113 to AM-136, 21 February 1942; ; Laid down, 8 April 1942 at Tampa Shipbuilding Co. Inc., Tampa, FL; Launched, 18 October 1942; Commissioned USS Admirable (AM-136), 20 April 1943; Decommissioned, 18 July 1945 at Dutch Harbor, Alaska and loaned to the USSR under terms of the Lend-Lease Program, renamed T-521; Reclassified Fleet Minesweeper (MSF-136), 7 February 1955; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 January 1983; Never returned by the Soviet Union to US custody. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 650 t.; Length 184' 6"; Beam 33'; Draft 9' 9"; Speed 14.8 kts; Complement 104; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, two twin 40mm gun mounts, one depth charge thrower (hedgehogs), two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two 1,710 shp ALCO diesel engines, two shafts.
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Admirable 68k Underway, 1944
US Navy photo # 411693
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships,
Vol. 1, pg. 61.
Admirable 53k Underway, 1944
US Navy photo
Jane's Fighting Ships of WWII

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