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AMc-129
Bond (AM 152)



Call sign: November - Echo - Victor - Aplha



Bond served the Navies of the United States and the USSR.

Admirable Class Minesweeper: Changed from Bond (AMc 129) to AM-152, 21 February 1942; Laid down, 11 April 1942 by the Willamette Iron and Steel Corp., Portland, OR; Launched, 21 October 1942; Commissioned, 30 August 1943; Decommissioned, 17 August 1945 and transferred to the USSR at Cold Bay, AK; Renamed T-593; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Reported to have been scrapped, 1956. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 650 t.; Length 184' 6"; Beam 93'; Draft 9' 9"; Speed 14.8 kts; Complement 104; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, two twin 40mm gun mounts, one depth charge thrower (hedgehogs), two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two 1,710 shp ALCO diesel engines, two shafts.
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Bond 118k From a WW II Christmas Card sent by Edmond T. Cobley. Joyce Neely
daughter of Edmond T. Cobley

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