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Phantom (AM 273)



Call sign:
Nan - Peter - William - Charlie


Phantom served the Navies of the United States and the Republic of China
Admirable Class Minesweeper:

  • Laid down 1 February 1943 at Gulf Shipbuilding Corp., Chickasaw, AL
  • Launched 25 July 1943
  • Commissioned USS Phantom (AM 273), 17 May 1944
  • Decommissioned 10 October 1946 at Subic Bay, Philippines and laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet
  • Transferred 15 June 1948 to the Nationalist Chinese Navy and renamed Yung Ming
  • Struck from the Naval Register 13 July 1948
  • Decommissioned and struck from the Chinese Navy list in October 1949
  • Sold for scrap in July 1951.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 945 t. (fl)
  • Length 184' 6"
  • Beam 33'
  • Draft 9' 9"
  • Speed 14.8 kts.
  • Complement 104
  • Armament: One 3"/50 cal. dual purpose mount, one twin 40mm gun mount, six 20mm gun mounts, one depth charge projector (hedgehogs), four depth charge projectors (K-guns), and two depth
    charge tracks
  • Propulsion: Two 855shp Cooper Bessemer GSB-8 diesel engines, National Supply Co. single reduction gear, two shafts.
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    American Ship Building
    110226902    		 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.     		Insert photos courtesy of catalog.archives.gov & catalog.archives.gov
    Photo courtesy of destroyerhistory.org
    Nimble 196k Phantom (AM-273) moored inboard of Pivot (AM-276) and Nimble (AM-266) in a nest of nine minesweepers and LCIs, at San Diego, California, circa 1945. LCI-633 is mooored to port
    Courtesy of Ted Stone 1979
    Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 89284    		 Mike Green
    Commanding Officers
    01LT Lawrence Dana, USNR17 May 1944 - 30 March 1945
    02LT James Edward Lambert, USNR30 March 1945 - 18 November 1945
    03LT Arthur McGraw, USNR18 November 1945 - 7 January 1946
    04LTJG Ben Frank Palmer, USN7 January 1946 - 10 October 1946
    Courtesy of Wolfgang Hechler, Ron Reeves and R. A. Moody
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