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Scoter (AM / MSF 381)

Call sign: November - India - Delta - Echo

Scoter served the Navies of the United States and Mexico.
Auk Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 4 April 1944 by the Gulf Shipbuilding Co., Chickasaw, AL; Launched, 26 September 1944; Commissioned USS Scoter (AM 381), 5 March 1945; Decommissioned, 16 April 1947 at San Diego, CA; Reclassified as a Fleet Minesweeper (Steel Hull) MSF-381, 7 February 1955; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 December 1966; Sold to Mexico, 19 September 1962 and renamed Manuel Gutierrez Zamora (G-10). Fate unknown.
Specifications: Displacement 540 t.(lt), 795 t.(fl); Length 184' 6"; Beam 33'; Draft 9' 9"; Speed 15 kts; Complement 104; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, two twin 40mm gun mounts, six single 20mm gun mounts, one depth charge thrower (hedgehogs), four depth charge projectiles (k-guns), two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two 3,532 bhp General Motors diesel engines, two shafts.
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