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Seer (AM / MSF 112 / MMC 5)

Seer served the Navies of the United States and Norway.
Auk Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 28 November 1941 by the American Shipbuilding Co., Lorain, OH; Launched, 23 May 1942; Commissioned, 21 October 1942 USS Seer (AM 112); Decommissioned, 26 April 1947 at Orange TX; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Texas Group, Orange: Recommissioned, 8 November 1950; Reclassified as a Fleet Minesweeper, (Steel-hulled) MSF-112, 7 February 1955; Decommissioned, 11 March 1955 at Green Cove Springs, FL; Reclassified as a Coastal Minesweeper MMC-5, 31 October 1958; Transferred to the Royal Norwegian Navy, 15 December 1962 and renamed Uller (N 50); Struck from the Naval Register, 1 March 1963. Fate unknown. Seer earned six battle stars during World War II.
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 General Motors diesels, 2,070shp, two shafts.
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