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Heroic (AMc 84)

Call sign:
Nan - Uncle - Mike - Item

Elizabeth B call sign (1948):
King - Roger - Roger - Oboe

Accentor Class Coastal Minesweeper:

Laid down 5 May 1941 by the Warren Boat Yard, Inc., Warren, RI

Launched 5 May 1941

Commissioned USS Heroic (AMc 84), 25 March 1942

Decommissioned 18 December 1945 at Portsmouth, VA

Struck from the Naval Register 8 January 1946

Transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal 28 September 1946

Registered in 1948 to Angelo Bacchi of Medford, MA as the fishing boat Elizabeth B

Fate unknown.

Specifications:

Displacement 205 t.

141 t.

Length 97' 1"

1948 - 91.6'

Beam 22'

1948 - 21.2'

Draft 9' 1"

1948 - 11.3'

Speed 10 kts.

Complement 17

1948 - 13

Armament: One .50 cal. machine gun

Propulsion: One 400bhp Atlas 6 HM-2124 diesel engine, one shaft.

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Commanding Officers
01	LTJG Alexander M. White, USNR	25 March 1942 - August 1942
02	LT Edwin H. Jones, USNR	August 1942 - June 1943
03	LTJG Gordon L. Garrett, USNR	June 1943 - September 1944
04	LTJG George T. McKinstry, USNR	September 1944 - March 1945
05	LTJG Richard F. Sweeney, USNR	March 1945 - 18 December 1945

Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler

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