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Admirable-class minesweeper

Class of United States Navy minesweeper ships

Field	Value
section1	{{Infobox ship/image
image	Admirable-136.jpg
image_caption	USS Admirable underway, ca. 1944.
section2	{{Infobox ship/class overview
builders	(8 companies in 8 states)
operators	*World War II
class_before
class_after
total_ships_planned	147
total_ships_completed	123
total_ships_canceled	24
total_ships_preserved	1
section3	{{Infobox ship/characteristics
type	Minesweeper
displacement	625 tons
length	184 ft
beam	33 ft
draft	10 ft
propulsion	2 × 855shp diesel engines, single reduction gear, 2 shafts
speed	15 kn
complement	104 officers and men
armament	*1 × 3"/50 caliber gun

Post-War
Taiwan Chinese Maritime Customs Service
4 × Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/60
6 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannon
1 × Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar
4 × Depth charge projectors
2 × Depth charge racks
2 × minesweeping paravanes The Admirable class was one of the largest and most successful classes of minesweepers ordered by the United States Navy during World War II. Typically, minesweepers detected and removed naval mines before the rest of the fleet arrived, thereby ensuring safe passage for the larger ships. They were also charged with anti-submarine warfare (ASW) duties with rear-mounted depth charge racks and a forward-firing Hedgehog antisubmarine mortar. Their job was essential to the safety and success of U.S. naval operations during World War II and the Korean War. These minesweepers were also employed as patrol vessel and convoy escorts. The only remaining ship of this class is located at Freedom Park, Omaha, NE.

The of patrol craft escorts was based on the Admirable-class design.

Service in other Navies

As a part of Project Hula – a secret 1945 program that transferred 149 U.S. Navy ships to the Soviet Navy at Cold Bay, Territory of Alaska, in anticipation of the Soviet Union joining the war against Japan – the U.S. Navy transferred 24 Admirable-class minesweepers to the Soviet Navy between May and August 1945. At least some of them saw action in the Soviet offensive against Japanese forces in Northeast Asia in August 1945. The Soviet Union never returned them to the United States.

After World War II, the United States transferred Admirable-class minesweepers to the Republic of China Navy, the Republic of Chinas Chinese Maritime Customs Service, the Republic of Korea Navy, the Republic of Vietnam Navy, and the Dominican, Mexican, Myanmar, and Philippine navies.

survives as a museum ship on dry land in Omaha, Nebraska. was a museum ship on the Mississippi River in St. Louis, until she sank during the Great Flood of 1993. was scuttled off the coast of Cozumel, Mexico in 1999. It is now a popular site for scuba diving.

Production

Tampa Shipbuilding Company, Tampa, FL (24)
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Willamette Iron and Steel Works, Portland, OR (23)
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Savannah Machine & Foundry, GA (9)
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Winslow Marine Railway and Shipbuilding Company, Puget Sound, WA (13)
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Gulf Shipbuilding Madisonville, LA (16)
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General Engineering & Dry Dock Company, Alameda, CA (7)
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Associated Shipbuilders, Puget Sound, WA (14)
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American Ship Building Company, Lorain, OH (17)
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Engines

Two 855shp ALCO 539 diesel engines, Farrel-Birmingham single reduction gear, two shafts. (30)
- AM-136 ... AM-165
Two 855shp Cooper Bessemer GSB-8 diesel engines, National Supply Co. single reduction gear, two shafts (84)
- AM-214 ... AM-226, AM-232 ... AM-235, AM-240 ... AM-242
- AM-246 ... AM-291, AM-294 ... AM-311
Two 855shp Busch-Sulzer 539 diesel engines, Farrel Birmingham single reduction gear, two shafts (9)
- AM-356, AM-357, AM-359, AM-361 ... AM-366
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References

http://shipbuildinghistory.com/smallships/minesweepers1.htm
http://shipbuildinghistory.com/shipyards/small/willamette.htm
http://shipbuildinghistory.com/shipyards/large/tasco.htm
http://www.shipbuildinghistory.com/shipyards/small/savannah.htm

References

(1980). "Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946". Conway Maritime Press.
Russell, Richard A., ''Project Hula: Secret Soviet-American Cooperation in the War Against Japan'', Washington, D.C.: [[Naval Historical Center]], 1997, {{ISBN. 0-945274-35-1, pp. 12, 35, 37–38, 39.
individual ship NavSource pages. Two 1,710shp engines is assumed to be incorrectly summed

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