USS Devastator (AM-318)
USS Devastator | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | as HMS Augusta (BAM-5) |
| Builder | General Engineering & Dry Dock Company, Alameda, California |
| Laid down | 15 December 1942 |
| Renamed | USS Devastator (AM-318) |
| Launched | 19 April 1943 |
| Sponsored by | Mrs. D. A. Shaw |
| Commissioned | 12 January 1944 |
| Decommissioned | 15 April 1955 |
| Recommissioned | 26 February 1952 |
| Reclassified | MSF-318, 7 February 1955 |
| Decommissioned | 15 April 1955 |
| Homeport | Long Beach, California |
| Honors & awards | three battle stars for World War II service and two for Korean War |
| Fate | Sold to Mexico, 1973 |
| History | |
| Mexico | |
| Name | ARM Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada (C74) |
| Namesake | Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada |
| Acquired | 1973 |
| Reclassified | G06 |
| Reclassified | P105, 1993 |
| Decommissioned | retired from service by 2004 |
| Fate | unknown |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Auk-class minesweeper |
| Displacement | 890 tons |
| Length | 221 ft 2 in (67.41 m) |
| Beam | 32 ft 2 in (9.80 m) |
| Draft | 10 ft 9 in (3.28 m) |
| Propulsion | two 2,976 shp (2,219 kW) Baldwin VO8 diesel electric drive engines, Westinghouse single reduction gear, two shafts. |
| Speed | 18 knots |
| Complement | 105 officers and enlisted |
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USS Devastator (AM-318) was an Auk-class minesweeper acquired by the U.S. Navy for the dangerous task of removing naval mines from minefields laid in the water to prevent ships from passing.