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Gayety (AM / MSF-239)

Gayety served the Navies of the United States, South Vietnam and the Philippines.
Admirable Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 14 November 1943 at Winslow Marine Railway and Shipbuilding, Winslow, Wash; Launched, 19 March 1944; Commissioned USS Gayety (AM 239), 23 September 1945; Decommissioned, 1 March 1954; Reclassified Fleet Minesweeper MSF-239, 7 February 1955; Transferred to South Vietnam, 17 April 1962 and renamed Chi Lang II (HQ 08); Escaped to the Philippines after the fall of South Vietnam; Renamed Magat Salamat (PS 19); Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown). Fate unknown.
Specifications: Displacement 540 t.(lt), 795 t.(fl); Length 184' 6"; Beam 33'; Draft 9' 9"; Speed 14 kts; Complement 80; 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 Cooper Bessemer diesel engines, two shafts.
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