USS Shoveler
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USS Shoveler (AM-382) was an Auk-class minesweeper acquired by the U.S. Navy for the dangerous task of removing mines from minefields laid in the water to prevent ships from passing.
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USS Shoveler (third ship from left) at Sasebo, Japan, 1952 | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Shoveler |
Namesake | Shoveler duck |
Builder | Gulf Shipbuilding Corp., Chickasaw, Alabama |
Laid down | 1 April 1944 |
Launched | 10 December 1944 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. William G. Burkhart |
Commissioned | 22 May 1945 |
Decommissioned | 5 November 1946 |
Recommissioned | 24 July 1951 |
Reclassified | MSF-382, 7 February 1955 |
Decommissioned | 28 September 1956 at San Diego, California |
Stricken | 17 May 1974 |
Honors and awards | one battle star for World War II service and one for service in the Korean War |
Fate | Transferred to Peru, 1 November 1960 |
History | |
Peru | |
Name | BAP Diez Canseco |
Namesake | Diez Canseco |
Acquired | 1 November 1960 |
Fate | Stricken 1981 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Auk-class minesweeper |
Displacement | 890 tons |
Length | 221' 1" |
Beam | 32' 2" |
Draft | 10' 9" |
Propulsion | two 3,532shp General Motors 12-278A diesel electric drive engines, Westinghouse single reduction gear, two shafts. |
Speed | 18.1 knots |
Complement | 117 officers and enlisted |
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