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263k | The Pinnacle (AM-274) 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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USS Pinnacle (AM 214) | ||||
142k | c. 1945 | Yu Chu Photo added 25 July 2019 |
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Yung Hsiu (MSF 48) | ||||
12k | Chinese Navy |
Commanding Officers | ||
01 | LT Joseph Barry Williams, USNR | 24 May 1944 - 10 November 1945 |
02 | LT Stanley Jaworski, USNR | 10 November 1945 -9 October 1946 |
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