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Swift (AM / MSF 122)



Call sign: November - Bravo - Delta - November



Auk Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 27 June 1942 by the John H. Mathis Co., Camden, NJ; Launched, 5 December 1942; Commissioned USS Swift (AM 122), 29 December 1943; Placed "in commission, in reserve," February 1946 at the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego, CA; Placed "out of commission, in reserve," 4 June 1946; Recommissioned, 19 December 1951; Reclassified Fleet Minesweeper (Steel-hulled) MSF-122, 7 February 1955; Decommissioned, 13 December 1955 and assigned to the Pacific Reserve Fleet; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 July 1972 and scrapped.

Specifications: Displacement 890 t.; Length 221' 2"; 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 3,532 shp General Motors diesel engines, two shafts.
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Swift 34k c. 1955 John Bates
Swift 67k c. 1955 John Bates

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Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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