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Prime (AM 279)

Prime served the Navies of the United States and the Republic of China.
Admirable Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 15 September 1943 at Gulf Shipbuilding Corp., Chickasaw, AL.; Launched, 22 January 1944; Commissioned USS Prime (AM 279), 12 September 1944; Decommissioned and sold to China, 29 May 1946 at Shanghai, China; Renamed Yung Feng (MMC 50); Yung Feng decommissioned and struck, 1 May 1973. Fate unknown.
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 two 1,710 bhp Cooper Bessemer diesel engines, two shafts.
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