AM-70 Flicker above. Photo U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command # NH 81360
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Specifications:
Displacement 510 t.
Length 147' 5"
Beam 25'
Draft 12'
Speed 13 kts.
Complement unknown
Armament one single 3"/23 gun mount.
Propulsion one 735 shp Fairbanks Morse diesel engine. one shaft.
The first Flicker (AM-70) was built in 1937 by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, as Delaware; acquired by the Navy 9 August 1940; and commissioned 26 October 1940, Lieutenant H. K. Hall in command. She was reclassified IX-165 on 11 April 1944. After training off
On 19 September 1942, she arrived at
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