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Nucleus (AM / MSF 268)

Call sign: November - Papa - Romeo - Victor

Nucleus served the Navies of the United States and the Soviet Union.
Admirable Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 7 September 1942 by the Gulf Ship Building Co., Chickasaw, AL.; Launched, 12 June 1943; Commissioned USS Nucleus (AM 268), 23 December 1943; Decommissioned, 20 May 1945 at Cold Bay, AK; Transferred to the Soviet Union, 21 May 1945 and renamed T-276; Reclassified as a Fleet Minesweeper (Steel Hull) MSF-268, 7 February 1955; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown). Fate unknown.
Specifications: Displacement 625 t.; Length 184' 6"; Beam 33'; Draft 9' 9"; Speed 14.8 kts; Complement 104; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, two twin 40mm gun mounts, six single 20mm gun mounts, three depth charge projectiles, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two 1,710 shp Cooper Bessemer diesel engines, two shafts.
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