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Quail (AM / MSF 377)



Call sign: November - India - Bravo - Zulu



Auk Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 12 April 1944 by the Savannah Machine and Foundry Co., Savannah, GA; Launched, 20 August 1944; Commissioned USS Quail (AM 377), 5 March 1945; Decommissioned, (date unknown) at San Diego, CA; Reclassified as a Fleet Minesweeper (Steel Hull) MSF-377, 7 February 1955; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 December 1966 and sold for scrap.

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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