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AM / MSF-57 Auk



Call sign: November - Alpha - Charlie - Uniform



Auk Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 15 April 1941 at Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, VA; Launched 26 August 1941; Commissioned USS Auk (AM-57), 15 January 1942; Decommissioned, 15 July 1946 at San Diego CA; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego Group; Reclassified a Fleet Minesweeper (Steel-hulled) (MSF-57), 7 March 1955; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 August 1956. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 890 t.; Length 221' 3"; Beam 32'; Draft 10' 9"; Speed 18.1 kts; Complement 105; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, two 40mm gun mounts, eight 20mm guns, two depth charge tracks, five depth charge projectiles; Propulsion two 3,118 shp ALCO diesel engines, two shafts.
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Auk 89k Auk being built at Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, VA.
US Navy photo
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Auk 71k Auk off Norfolk Navy Yard, 6 May 1942, in Measure 12 (modified) camouflage. Note the odd antenna at the head of the foremast.
US Navy photo # 19-N-30945
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, Vol 1, pg.482

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