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Phoebe (AMS / MSC 199)
Courtesy of Mike Smolinski
Bluebird Class Motor Minesweeper: Laid down, 26 February 1953 by the Harbor Boat Building Co., Terminal Island, CA; Launched, 21 August 1954; Reclassified as a Coastal Minesweeper MSC-199, 7 February 1955; Commissioned USS Phoebe (MSC 199), 29 April 1955; Decommissioned (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, 1 July 1975; Disposed of through the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service for scrap, 1 September 1976.
Specifications: Displacement 362 t.; Length 144' 3"; Beam 27' 2"; Draft 12'; Speed 13.6 kts; Complement 40; Armament, one twin 20mm; Propulsion 600shp Packard diesel engines, two shafts.
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