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Scrimmage (AM / MSF 297)

Call sign: November - Quebec - Papa - Bravo
Admirable Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 22 February 1943 by the Winslow Marine Railway and Ship Building Co., Seattle, WA; Launched, 16 May 1943; Commissioned USS Scrimmage (AM 297), 4 April 1944; Decommissioned, 22 June 1946 at Orange, TX; Reclassified as a Fleet Minesweeper (Steel Hull) MSF-297, 7 February 1955; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 April 1960 and sold; She became a British merchantman named Giant II. Fate unknown.
Specifications: Displacement 945 t.; Length 184' 6"; Beam 33'; Draft 9' 9"; Speed 14 kts; Complement 80; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, two twin 40mm gun mounts, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two 1,710 bhp Cooper Bessemer diesel engines, two shafts.
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