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LSI(L)-966
Medrick (AMCU 31)


AMCU-7 Class Coastal Minesweeper (Underwater Locator): Laid down, 6 March 1944 by the Consolidated Steel Corp., Ltd., Orange, TX; Launched, 23 March 1944; Commissioned USS LSI(L)-966, 19 April 1944; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Named Medrick and reclassified a Coastal Minesweeper (Underwater Locator) AMCU-31, 7 March 1952; Conversion to AMCU-31 canceled, 1 July 1954 and reclassified LSI(L)-966; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown). Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 260 t.; Length 159'; Beam 23' 8"; Draft 5' 8"; Speed 14.4 kts; Complement 41; Armament two 20-mm mounts; Propulsion General Motors diesel engines, 1,800shp, two shafts.
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