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Chapters: Uss Shelter. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 77. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: 1 x 3"/50 caliber gun6 x Oerlikon 20 mm cannon2 x Bofors 40 mm gun (the normal 2 x twin mounts unavailable; Single Mounts were used)1 x Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar4 x Depth charge projectors2 x Depth charge racks2 x Minesweeping paravanes2 x O-type Minesweeping Gear for moored mines1 x Jackhammer Diaphragm System for Acoustic Mines 1 x 450 KW Generator and 2 x cable 440 Yard Cable for magnetic minesUSS Shelter (AM-301) was an Admirable-class minesweeper built for the United States Navy during World War II. After service in the Pacific during World War II, Shelter was decommissioned in June 1946 and placed in reserve. In January 1964, she was transferred to South Vietnam for service in the Republic of Vietnam Navy as RVNS Chi Linh (HQ-11). She remained in South Vietnamese service until the collapse of that country in 1975. Chi Linh was one of several ships that fled from South Vietnam to the Philippines. She was then commissioned into the Philippine Navy in April 1976 as RPS Datu Tupas (PS-18), named after a chieftain of Cebu. The ship's fate is not reported in secondary sources. Shelter was laid down on 16 August 1943 by Winslow Marine Railway and Shipbuilding Company of Winslow, Washington; launched on 14 November 1943; sponsored by Miss Patricia Whittenberg, and commissioned on 9 July 1944, Lt. Samuel D. LaTourneau in command. Shelter conducted shakedown training at San Pedro and sailed from San Francisco on 21 October as escort unit for a convoy which entered Pearl Harbor on the 30th. Returned to San Francisco escorting merchant ships. Thanksgiving Day left San Francisco and returned to Pearl Harbor. After assault minesweeping exercises off Maui she departed Pearl Harbor on 5 January...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=883153


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  • ISBN-13: 9781156745892
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 78
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Weight: 127 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1156745896
  • Publisher Date: 15 Sep 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: USS Shelter
  • Width: 229 mm


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