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AM / MSF-240 Hazard


Admirable Class Minesweeper: Laid down at Winslow Marine Railway and Shipbuilding, Winslow, Wash; Launched 21 May 1944; Commissioned USS Hazard (AM-240), 31 October 1944; Decommissioned 27 July 1946 at Galvestion TX; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Texas Group; Reclassified Fleet Minesweeper (MSF-240) 7 February 1955; Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown); Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 22 October 1968; Currently display at Freedom Park, Omaha Neb.

Specifications: Displacement 540 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, diesel-electric, two turbines, twin screws, 1,800shp.
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