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PC-1586

Call sign:
Nan - Baker - Roger - Dog

ex-Adroit (AM 82)

Adroit Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 31 July 1941 by the Commercial Iron Works, Portland, OR; Launched, 21 February 1942; Commissioned USS Adroit (AM 82), 28 July 1942; Reclassified as a Submarine Chaser, PC-1586, 1 June 1944; Decommissioned, 14 December 1945; Struck from the Navy Register 8 January 1946; Transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal, 18 March 1948. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 450 t.; Length 173' 8"; Beam 23'; Draft 11' 7"; Speed 16.8 kts.; Complement 65; Armament one 3"/50 dual purpose mount, one 40mm gun, five 20mm guns, two depth charge projectors, two depth charge tracks, two rocket launchers; Propulsion two 1700bhp Cooper Bessemer GNB-8 diesel engines, Farrel-Birmingham single reduction gear, two shafts.

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description		Source
	952k	"Mine Sweeper - Adaptation of PC 452 Type"Preliminary design plan, probably prepared during consideration of what became the Adroit (AM-82) class. This drawing, dated 6 January 1941, is for a 360-ton (full load displacement) vessel with a waterline length of 170 feet. Scale of the original drawing is 1/8" = 1'. U.S. Navy photo S-511-13		Naval Historical Center

View the Adroit (AM 82)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.

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Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen

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