History | |
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United States | |
Laid down | 10 October 1942 |
Launched | 19 April 1943 |
Commissioned | 8 May 1943 |
Fate | Transferred to Coast Guard, 7 February 1946, sold commercial and sunk 1979 |
General characteristics | |
Displacement | 98 tons |
Length | 110 ft 10 in (33.78 m) |
Beam | 17 ft 11 in (5.46 m) |
Draught | 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) |
Propulsion | two General Motors 16-184A "pancake" engines, two shafts |
Speed | 21 kts |
Complement | 27 |
Armament | one single 40 mm Bofor gun mount forward, three Oerlikon 20 mm guns aft, two dcp "K Guns", 14 depth charges with six single release chocks, two sets Mk 20 Mousetrap rails with four 7.2 projectiles |
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