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Counsel (MSF 165)
ex-AM-165



Call sign:
November - Delta - Romeo - Alpha

ex-AMc-142

Admirable Class Minesweeper:

  • Originally planned as Coastal Minesweeper Counsel (AMc 142)
  • Reclassified as a Minesweeper AM-165, 21 February 1942
  • Laid down 15 June 1942 by the Willamette Iron and Steel Corp., Portland, OR
  • Launched 17 February 1943
  • Commissioned USS Counsel (AM 165), 27 May 1944
  • Decommissioned 15 January 1947 at San Diego, CA
    Naval Vessel Register of 1 January 1949 lists out of commission, in reserve as December 1945
  • Reclassified as a Fleet Minesweeper (Steel Hull), MSF-163, 7 February 1955
  • Struck from the Naval Register 1 July 1972
  • Sold for scrap 1 September 1973.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 650 t.
  • Length 184' 6"
  • Beam 33'
  • Draft 9' 9"
  • Speed 14.8 kts.
  • Complement 104
  • Armament: One 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, two twin 40mm gun mounts, one depth charge projector (hedgehog) and two depth charge tracks
  • Propulsion: Two 1,710shp ALCO 539 diesel engines, Farrel-Birmingham single reduction gear, two shafts.
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    Commanding Officers
    01CDR Edwin Charles Davis, USNR27 May 1944 - March 1946
    02LTJG Robert J. Rantz, USNRMarch 1946 - April 1946
    03LTJG Emery Lyle Burgess, USNRApril 1946 - 15 January 1947
    Courtesy of Wolfgang Hechler, Ron Reeves Joe Radigan and R. A. Moody
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