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AM / MSF-382 Shoveler


Auk Class Minesweeper: Laid down at Gulf Shipbuilding Corp., Chickasaw Ala.; Launched 10 December 1944; Commissioned USS Shoveler (AM-382), 22 May 1945; Out-of-Commission-in-Reserve 5 November 1946 at San Pedro CA; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet; Recommissioned 24 July 1951; Reclassified a Fleet Minesweeper (Steel-hulled) (MSF-382), 7 February 1955; Out-of-Commission-in-Reserve 28 September 1956 at San Diego; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet; Loaned to Peru under the Military Assistance Program 1 November 1960, renamed Diez Canseco (MSF-69); Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown); Final Disposition, 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 dcpth charge tracks, five depth charge projectiles; Propulsion, diesel.
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Shoveler 112k c. 1951-52, shortly after recommissioning
for Korean War service.
US Navy photo (NH 96910)
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Defense 73k 8 October 1952
Laertes
(AR-20) At Sasebo, Japan, with nine
minesweepers
and a harbor tug alongside.
Ships nested to left of Laertes are (from left):
Impeccable (AM-320);
Gladiator (AM-319);
Shoveler (AM-382);
Defense (AM-317) and
Devastator (AM-318).
Those nested to right are (from left):
Condor (AMS-5);
Kite (AMS-22);
Curlew (AMS-8);
Chatterer (AMS-40) and
Wallacut (YTB-420)
US Navy photo (G-63229), now in the
collections of the National Archives.
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