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Name: | USS Reign (AM-288) |
Builder: | General Engineering & Dry Dock Company, Alameda, California |
Laid down: | 30 October 1943 |
Launched: | 29 May 1944 |
Acquired: | 11 October 1946 |
Reclassified: | MSF-288, 7 February 1955 |
Struck: | 1 November 1959 |
Fate: | Unknown |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Admirable-class minesweeper |
Displacement: | 650 tons |
Length: | 184 ft 6 in (56.24 m) |
Beam: | 33 ft (10 m) |
Draft: | 9 ft 9 in (2.97 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: | Pacific Reserve Fleet (1944-1959) |
Reign (AM-288) was an Admirable-class minesweeper built for the U.S. Navy during World War II. She was built at the General Engineering & Dry Dock Company, of Alameda, California and completed in 1946, but she was never commissioned. Reign remained in the Pacific Reserve Fleet until struck from the Navy list 1 November 1959. During that time, however, she was redesignated MSF-288 on 7 February 1955.
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.