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International Call Sign
November-Bravo-Mike-Charlie
Auk Class Minesweeper: Laid
down, 24 June 1941 by General Engineering and Dry Dock Co., Alameda,CA:
Launched, 12 February 1942; Commissioned, USS Sheldrake (AM-62), 14 October
1942; Decommissioned, 31 May 1946 at San Diego, CA; Recommissioned, 14
April 1952 and converted to an Oceanographic Survey Ship, AGS-19 at New York; Struck from
Naval Register, 30 June 1968; Decommissioned, 1 August 1968 at Pearl
Harbor, HI; Sold for scapping, 2 November 1971 to Flynn-Learner of
Honolulu, HI.