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AM-283 Ransom



Call sign: November - Quebec - Golf - Papa



Admirable Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 24 April 1943 by the General Engineering & Dry Dock Co., San FrancIsco, CA; Launched, 18 September 1943; Commissioned USS Ransom (AM 283), 5 August 1944; Decommissioned, 3 March 1947 at Orange, TX; Recommissioned, 16 March 1951; Decommissioned, June 1953 at Charleston, SC; Redesignated a Fleet Minesweeper (Steel Hull) MSF-283, 7 February 1955; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 May 1962. Fate unknown. Ransom earned three battle stars for World War II service.

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 Cooper Bessemer diesel engines, two shafts.
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Ransom 83k . Daniel G. Zeh

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