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PCE-906
Facility (AM / MSF 233)

Call sign: November - Delta - Golf - India

Facility served the Navies of the United States and Mexico.
Admirable Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 29 March 1944 as PCE-906 by the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Co., Seattle, WA; Reclassified as a Minesweeper AM-233, (date unknown); Launched, 22 June 1944; Commissioned USS Facility (AM 233), 29 November 1944; Decommissioned, 11 September 1946 at Galveston, TX; Reclassified as a Fleet Minesweeper (Steel Hull) MSF-233, 7 February 1955; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 May 1962; Transferred to Mexico, 2 October 1962 and classified DM-04. Fate unknown. Facility received three battle stars for World War II servoce.
Specifications: Displacement 530 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 1,710 shp Cooper Bessemer diesel engines, two shafts.
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