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Skirmish (AM / MSF 303)

Call sign: November - Quebec - Uniform - Bravo

Skirmish served the Navies of the United States and the Dominican Republic.
Admirable Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 8 April 1943 by Associated Shipbuilders, Seattle, WA.; Launched, 16 August 1943; Commissioned USS Skirmish (AM 303), 30 June 1944; Decommissioned, December 1945 at Orange, TX; Reclassified as a Fleet Minesweeper (Steel-hulled), MSF-303, 7 February 1955; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 January 1965; Transferred to the Dominican Republic, 14 January 1965 and renamed Tortugero (BDM-455). Fate unknown.
Specifications: Displacement 540 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, two twin 40mm gun mounts, six single 20mm gun mounts, one depth charge thrower (hedgehogs), four depth charge projectiles (k-guns), two dcpth charge tracks; Propulsion two two 1,710 bhp Cooper Bessemer diesel engines, two shafts.
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