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263k | The Peril (AM-272) was built by the Gulf Shipbuilding Co., Chickasaw, AL, a few miles upstream of the Port of Mobile. Here in August 1917, after the United States entered World War I, U.S. Steel established Chickasaw Shipbuilding. The yard closed after World War I but was reopened in 1940 by Waterman Steamship Corp. as Gulf Shipbuilding. |
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110227002 |
263k | Rear Admiral Popov speaks aboard an Admirable-class minesweeper during the ship's transfer ceremony, probably on 21 or 22 May 1945. | United States Navy photo via National Archives - Scanned from Russell, Richard A., Project Hula: Secret Soviet-American Cooperation in the War Against Japan, Washington, D.C.: Naval Historical Center, 1997, ISBN 0-945274-35-1, page 21. Caption information from same source., Public Domain, wikimedia.org | |
67k | George Pol | |||
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59k | c. 1947/1947 | |||
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Commanding Officers | ||
01 | LCDR Donald Wilson Phillips, USNR | 2 April 1944 - 18 February 1945 |
02 | LT Arthur Patrick Keegan, Jr., USNR | 18 February 1945 - 20 May 1945 |
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