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AM / MSF-320 Impeccable



Call sign: November - Charlie - Mike - Zulu



Auk Class Minesweeper: Laid down as HMS Brutus (BAM 7) by the General Engineering and Dry Dock Co., Alameda, CA.; Launched, 21 May 1943; Commissioned USS Impeccable (AM-320), 29 April 1944; Decommissioned, 27 March 1947; Recommissioned, 12 March 1952; Reclassified a Fleet Minesweeper (Steel-hulled) MSF-320, 7 February 1955; Decommissioned, 14 October 1955; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 July 1972; Sold, 1 April 1974. Fate unknown. Impeccable received three battle stars for World War II service and two for Korean service.

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 dcpth charge tracks, five depth charge projectiles; Propulsion two General Motors diesel engines, two shafts.
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Defense 73k 8 October 1952. Laertes (AR-20) at Sasebo, Japan, with nine minesweepers and a harbor tug alongside. Ships nested from left to right are:
Impeccable;
Gladiator (AM-319);
Shoveler (AM-382);
Defense (AM-317);
Devastator (AM-318)
Laertes;
Condor (AMS-5);
Kite (AMS-22);
Curlew (AMS-8);
Chatterer (AMS-40), and
Wallacut (YTB-420).
US Navy Photo 80-G-63229, now in the collections of the National Archives.
Naval Historical Center

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U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
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Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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