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Embattle (AM 226)



Call sign: November - Delta - Bravo - Lima



Embattle served the Navies of the United States and the Republic of China.

Admirable Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 6 April 1944 by the American Shipbuilding Co., Lorain, OH; Launched, 17 September 1944; Commissioned USS Embattle (AM 226), 25 April 1945; Decommissioned, 29 May 1946 at Shanghai, China and turned over to the Chinese Maritime Commission from the Foreign Liquidation Commission of the State Department; Renamed Yung Hsing (A 7); Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown). Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 890 t.; Length 221' 3"; Beam 32'; Draft 10' 9"; Speed 18 kts; Complement 105; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, two twin 40mm gun mounts, two single 20mm gun mounts, two depth charge tracks, five depth charge projectiles; Propulsion two Cooper Bessemer diesel engines, two shafts.
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Embattle 63k Halftone reproduction of a photograph taken in 1945-1946.
Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1974.
US Navy Photo NH 81366
Naval Historical Center
Yung Hsing 36k Yung Hsing (A 7) Chinese Navy

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