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Swerve (AM 121)


Call sign:
Nan - Baker - King - Charlie

Sunk 9 July 1944
Auk Class Minesweeper:

  • Laid down 27 May 1942 by the John H. Mathis Co., Camden, NJ
  • Launched 25 February 1943
  • Commissioned 23 January 1944
  • Struck a mine and sank off Anzio Beach, Italy 9 July 1944
  • Struck from the Naval Register 22 August 1944.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 890 t.
  • Length 221' 2"
  • Beam 32'
  • Draft 10' 9"
  • Speed 18.1 kts.
  • Complement 105
  • Armament: One 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, two 40mm gun mounts, two 20mm gun mounts, two depth charge tracks, and five depth charge projectors
  • Propulsion: Two 1,766shp General Motors 12-278 diesel electric engines, Farrel-Birmingham reduction gear, two shafts.
    Click on thumbnail
    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    Swerve 50k c. 1944
    National Archives photo from Allied Escort Ships of World War II by Peter Elliott    		 Krlicbegovic Edib
    Bosnia & Hercegovina
    Swerve 50k U.S. Navy photo from the February 1947 edition of All Hands magazine. Joe Radigan
    Commanding Officers
    01LT Andrew Morthland, USNR23 January 1944 - 9 July 1944
    Courtesy of Wolfgang Hechler, Ron Reeves and R. A. Moody
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