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AM / MSF-249 Incredible


Admirable Class Minesweeper: Laid down at Savannah Machine and Foundry Co., Savannah GA.; Launched 21 November 1943; Commissioned USS Incredible (AM-249), 17 April 1944; Decommissioned 28 November 1947 at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton WA; Placed In-service-out-of-Commission, from 28 November 1947 to 28 September 1949 at Yokosuka Japan; Recommissioned 14 August 1950 at Yokosuka Japan; Decommissioned 21 September 1954 at Long Beach CA; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Long Beach Group; Reclassified Fleet Minesweeper (Steel-hulled) (MSF-249), 7 February 1955; Struck from the Naval Register 1 December 1959; Final Disposition, sold for scrapping 8 August 1960 to National Metal and Steel Corp.

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, diesel-electric, two turbines, twin screws, 1,800shp.
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Incredible 80k Flying a "Homeward Bound" pennant.
US Navy photo (80-G-437698)
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Incredible 117k Possibly c. July 1951, while en route to the U.S.
following minesweeping service off Korea.
Location appears to be Pearl Harbor, with
Ford Island Naval Air Station in the background.
US Navy photo (NH 73146)
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Incredible 80k US Navy photo (NH 96908) -

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