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Success (MSF 310)
ex-AM-310



Call sign:
November - Quebec - Whiskey - Delta
Admirable Class Minesweeper:

  • Laid down 18 February 1944 by Associated Shipbuilders, Seattle, WA
  • Launched 11 May 1944
  • Commissioned USS Success (AM 310), 18 October 1944
    Naval Vessel Register of 1 January 1949 lists plan for decommissioning and placing in reserve as December 1945
  • Decommissioned 9 July 1946 at Orange, TX
  • Reclassified as a Fleet Minesweeper (Steel Hull), MSF-310, 7 February 1955
  • Struck from the Naval Register 1 May 1962
  • Scrapped in 1969.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 945 t.(fl)
  • Length 184' 6"
  • Beam 33'
  • Draft 9' 9"
  • Speed 14.8 kts.
  • Complement 104
  • Armament: One 3"/50 dual purpose mount, one twin 40mm gun mount, six 20mm gun mounts, one depth charge projector (hedgehog), four depth charge projectors (K-guns) and two depth charge tracks
  • Propulsion: Two 1,710shp Cooper Bessemer GSB-8 diesel engines, National Supply Co. single reduction gear, two shafts.
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    Commanding Officers
    01LT Robert Neville Hall, USNR18 October 1944
    02LT William B. Baucom, USNR18 November 1945 - 15 May 1946
    03LCDR Joseph Allen Matthews, USNR15 May 1946 - 9 July 1946
    Courtesy of Wolfgang Hechler, Ron Reeves and R. A. Moody
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