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Minivet (AM 371)



Call sign: November - Hotel - Zulu - Victor



Admirable Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 19 July 1944 by the Savannah Machine and Foundry Co., Savannah, GA; Launched, 8 November 1944; Commissioned USS Minivet (AM 371), 29 May 1945; Struck a mine in the Tsushima Straits and sank, 29 December 1945; Struck from the Naval Register, 21 January 1946.

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 depth charge tracks; Propulsion two 1,710 bhp Busch Sulzer Brothers diesel engines, two shafts.
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