USS Delegate (AM-217)
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| Career (USA) |  |
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| Name: | USS Delegate |
| Builder: | Tampa Shipbuilding Company |
| Laid down: | 27 December 1942 |
| Launched: | 28 March 1943 |
| Commissioned: | 30 April 1945 |
| Decommissioned: | 29 May 1946 |
| Struck: | 29 May 1946 |
| Fate: | Transferred to the Republic of China |
| Career (Republic of China) |  |
| Name: | Yung Ho (PF-53) |
| Acquired: | 29 May 1946 |
| Struck: | 1 September 1962 |
| Fate: | Unknown |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Admirable-class minesweeper |
| Displacement: | 650 tons |
| Length: | 184 ft 6 in (56.2 m) |
| Beam: | 33 ft (10 m) |
| Draft: | 9 ft 9 in (3.0 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 × ALCO 539 diesel engines, 1,710 shp (1.3 MW) Farrel-Birmingham single reduction gear 2 shafts |
| Speed: | 14.8 knots (27.4 km/h) |
| Complement: | 104 |
| Armament: | 1 × 3"/50 caliber gun DP 2 × twin Bofors 40 mm guns 1 × Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar 2 × Depth charge tracks |
| Service record | |
| Part of | US Pacific Fleet (1944-1946) |
| Awards | 1 Battle star |
USS Delegate (AM-217) was an Admirable-class minesweeper built for the U.S. Navy during World War II. She was built to clear minefields in offshore waters, and served the Navy in the Pacific Ocean.
Delegate was launched 28 March 1943 by Tampa Shipbuilding Co., Inc., Tampa, Florida; sponsored by Miss L. Bourget; and commissioned 30 April 1945, Lieutenant N. W. Millard, USNR, in command.
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[edit] World War II Pacific Ocean operations
Delegate sailed from Norfolk, Virginia, 14 July 1945 and called at Guantánamo Bay, San Pedro, Pearl Harbor, Eniwetok, and Saipan before arriving at Usuki Bay, Kyūshū, 3 November as escort for two LST's. She swept mines in Tsushima Straits from 15 to 22 December, then supervised Japanese minesweepers clearing the northern Futagami minefields from 20 January to 26 January 1946. Delegate arrived at Kure 6 February to provide logistics support for the YMSs engaged in widening the swept channel to that port.
[edit] Post-War Decommissioning
Delegate left Kure, Japan, 24 February 1946 and arrived at Subic Bay, Luzon, 5 March to have her armament removed. On 8 April she sailed for Shanghai, China, arriving 5 days later. She was decommissioned and turned over to the State Department 29 May 1946 for further transfer to the Republic of China, by which she was renamed and reclassified, Yung Ho (PF-53).
She was decommissioned and struck 1 September 1962. Fate unknown.
[edit] Awards
Delegate received one battle star for World War II service.
[edit] References
This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
[edit] External links
- Photo gallery of Delegate at NavSource Naval History
