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Scurry (MSF 304)
ex-Scurry (AM 304)
ex-Skurry (AM 304)



Call sign:
November - Quebec - Sierra - Foxtrot
Admirable Class Minesweeper:
  • Built by Associated Shipbuilders, Seattle, WA (YN 51)
  • Laid down, 24 May 1943
  • Launched, 01 October 1943
  • Commissioned USS Skurry (AM-304), 29 July 1944
  • Renamed Scurry, 03 August 1944
  • Departed States, 02 October 1944
  • Participated in occupation of Iwo Jima, 16 February - 03 March 1945
  • Participated in occupation of Okinawa, 25 March - 07 July 1945
  • Shot down one Japanese bomber and assisted in shootdown of two others, 22 April 1945
  • Participated in occupation of Japan and Korea, 01 September - 10 December 1945
  • Departed for States, 11 December 1945
  • Arrived San Diego, CA, 12 January 1946
  • Decommissioned at Orange, TX, 29 June 1946
  • Reclassified as Fleet Minesweeper (Steel Hull) MSF-304, 07 February 1955
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 01 May 1967
  • Converted to a salvage training hulk
  • FInal dispisition, sunk as a target off the Virginia Capes, 14 August 1967
    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.
    Click on thumbnail
    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    Scurry
    110230403    		 145k Underway off Seattle, WA, 25 July 1944. She is wearing camouflage 32/21D; the colors are dull black and light gray.
    National Archives photo BS 69770 from the Bureau of Ships collection    		 Ships of the U.S. Navy in WWII “Dazzle” Camouflage
    Scurry
    110230404    		 263k Bow view, underway off Seattle, WA, 25 July 1944. She is wearing camouflage 32/21D; the colors are dull black and light gray. The inset photo shows a mine being exploded by Scurry off Okinawa.
    National Archives photo    		 Dave Wright
    Scurry
    110230405    		 255k Underway in heavy weather, probably off Okinawa, 1945. Dave Wright
    Scurry
    110230406    		 346k Detail view of Scurry's tally board on her bridge wing, 1945. besides the aircraft downed, it shows 310 mines swept. Dave Wright
    Scurry
    110230401    		 444k 14 November 1944
    Shellback Certificate
    From the collection of Fletcher Harold Beasley, S1c, USS Scurry (AM 304)    		 Tommy Trampp
    Scurry
    110230402    		 118k Ribbons below photo are: Top - World War II Victory Ribbon, Bottom - American Campaign Ribbon; Asiatic Pacific Service Ribbon with two battle stars and the Philippine Liberation Ribbon
    From the collection of Fletcher Harold Beasley, S1c, USS Scurry (AM 304)
    Commanding Officers
    01LT Charles Edward Dunston, USNR29 July 1944
    Courtesy of Wolfgang Hechler, Ron Reeves and R. A. Moody
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