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Elusive (AM 225)



Call sign: November - Charlie - Zulu - Mike



Elusive served the Navies of the United States and the Republic of China.

Admirable Class Minesweeper: Laid down, (date unknown) by the American Shipbuilding Co., Lorain, OH; Launched, 10 June 1944; Commissioned USS Elusive (AM 225), 19 February 1945; Decommissioned, 29 May 1946 at Shanghai, China and turned over to the Chinese Maritime Commission through the State Department; Renamed Yung Kang (AM 54); Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Yung Kang decommissioned and was struck, 6 January 1962. Fate unknown.

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, two Cooper Bessemer diesel engines, two shafts.
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AM-217/225 70k Elusive outboard of Delegate (AM 217). Whangpoo
River, Shanghai, China, 14 May 1946.
Michael B. Kirby

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