USS Device
Device at Tampa, Florida sometime in July 1944. | |
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Name | USS Device (AM-220) |
| Builder | Tampa Shipbuilding Company, Tampa, Florida |
| Laid down | 1 July 1943 |
| Launched | 21 May 1944 |
| Sponsored by | Miss P. K. Kennedy |
| Commissioned | 7 July 1944 |
| Decommissioned | 24 August 1946 |
| Recommissioned | 16 March 1950 |
| Decommissioned | 4 February 1954 |
| Reclassified | MSF-220, 7 February 1955 |
| Fate | Transferred to Mexican Navy, 1962 |
| History | |
| Mexico | |
| Name | ARM DM-11 |
| Acquired | 1962 |
| Renamed | ARM Cadete Agustín Melgar (C54), 1994 |
| Namesake | Agustín Melgar |
| Stricken | 2000 |
| Fate | unknown |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Admirable-class minesweeper |
| Displacement | 650 long tons (660 t) |
| Length | 184 ft 6 in (56.24 m) |
| Beam | 33 ft (10 m) |
| Draft | 9 ft 9 in (2.97 m) |
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| Speed | 15 knots (28 km/h) |
| Complement | 104 |
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| Service record | |
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| Awards: | 3 battle stars |
USS Device (AM-220) was an Admirable-class minesweeper built for the United States Navy during World War II. She was awarded three battle stars for service in the Pacific during World War II. She was decommissioned in August 1946 and placed in reserve. Although she did not see service in the war zone, Device was recommissioned in March 1950 during the Korean War and remained in commission until February 1954, when she was placed in reserve again. While she remained in reserve, Device was reclassified as MSF-220 in February 1955 but never reactivated. In October 1962, she was sold to the Mexican Navy and renamed ARM DM-11. In 1994 she was renamed ARM Cadete Agustín Melgar (C54), spelled Augustín Melgar in some sources. She was stricken in 2000, and scuttled for use as an artificial reef in Bahía de Loreto National Park.