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NavSource Online: Mine Warfare Vessel Photo Archive

Arch (MSF 144)
ex-AM-144
ex-AMc-121

Arch only served in the Soviet Navy

Admirable Class Minesweeper:

Originally planned as Arch (AMc 121)

Reclassified as AM-144, 21 February 1942

Laid down 10 October 1942 by the Tampa Shipbuilding Co., Tampa, FL

Launched 7 December 1942

Completed 6 September 1943

Transferred to the Soviet Union 9 September 1943 and reclassified T-117

Assigned to the Federation Council 24 November 1943

Reclassified by U.S. Navy as a Fleet Minesweeper (Steel Hull), MSF-144, 7 February 1955

Returned to U.S. Navy custody 15 October 1955 (on paper only) and reclassified as a Torpedo Carrier, TB-22

Reclassified as a Transport, BTR-22, 8 March 1966

Scrapped 19 September 1967

Struck from the Navy Register 1 January 1983.

Specifications:

Displacement 650 t., 840 t. (fl)

Length 184' 6"

Beam 33'

Draft 9' 9"

Speed 14.8 kts.

Complement 85

Armament: Two 3"/50 dual purpose gun mounts, eight 20mm gun mounts, two 7.63mm Browning machine guns, one depth charge projector (hedgehogs), and two depth charge tracks

Propulsion: Two 1,710shp ALCO 539 diesel engines, Farrel-Birmingham single reduction gear, two shafts.

Click on thumbnail for full size image	Size	Image Description	Source
T-117
	66k	Novaya Zemlya, Soviet Union	George Pol
	101k	c. 1944
	191k	c. September 1945 Streaming sweep gear.
	102k
	79k
	94k
	80k	Victory Star
TB-22
	94k		George Pol
	68k	Photo from Soviet Navy in World War II	Joe Radigan