U.S.S. Towhee
AGS-28
1968
(Trident alpha Ta-10172)
- Class: Auk - 5 converted minesweepers of 1945
- Displacement: 890 tons
- Dimensions: 221'1" x 32'2" x 10'9"
- Machinery: 2-shaft diesel-electric, 3,532shp = 18 knots
- Armament: 1-3"/50 DP gun
- Complement: 117
- Builder: American Shipbuilding Co, Cleveland, OH
- Keel Laid: 21 Mar 1944
- Launched: 6 Jan 1945
- Commissioned: 18 May 1945 / 1 Apr 1964
- Decommissioned: Mar 1954 / 30 Apr 1969
- Notes: Built as Minesweeper AM-388. Laid up in Atlantic Reserve Fleet. Reclassified as a Fleet Minesweeper (Steel Hull) MSF-388 on 7 Feb 1955. Converted to a Survey Ship AGS-28 at Philadelphia, PA. Scrapped 1970.
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