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AM-241 / MSF-241 Hilarity


Admirable Class Minesweeper: Laid down at Winslow Marine Railway & Shipbuilding Co., Inc., Winslow, WA; Launched, 30 July 1944; Commissioned, 27 November 1944; Decommissioned, 26 August 1946 at Orange TX; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Texas Group, Orange; Reclassified Fleet Minesweeper (MSF-241), 7 February 1955; Transferred to Mexico, 2 October 1962 and renamed DM-02 (D 2); Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown); Final Disposition, Removed from Mexican service and scrapped, 1 August 1988. Hilarity received two battle stars for World War II service.

Specifications: Displacement 530 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, four 40mm gun mounts; Propulsion, diesel-electric, twin screws, 1,800shp.
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