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Wheatear (AM / MSF 390)



Call sign: November - India - Hotel - Echo



Auk Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 29 May 1944 by the American Shipbuilding Co., Cleveland, OH; Launched, 21 April 1945; Commissioned USS Wheatear (AM 390), 3 October 1945; Decommissioned, 17 November 1954 at Orange, TX; Reclassified as a Fleet Minesweeper (Steel Hull) MSF-390, 7 February 1955; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 July 1972; Sold for scrap, 20 December 1973, to the Southern Scrap Material Co., Ltd., New Orleans, LA.

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 3,532 bhp General Motors diesel engines, two shafts.
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