15" x 21" - Bob T. Reibert Svc
Admirable Class Minesweeper:
Built by Associated Shipbuilders, Seattle, WA (YN 51)
Laid down, 24 May 1943
Launched, 01 October 1943
Commissioned USS Skurry (AM-304), 29 July 1944
Renamed Scurry, 03 August 1944
Departed States, 02 October 1944
Participated in occupation of Iwo Jima, 16 February - 03 March 1945
Participated in occupation of Okinawa, 25 March - 07 July 1945
Shot down one Japanese bomber and assisted in shootdown of two others, 22 April 1945
Participated in occupation of Japan and Korea, 01 September - 10 December 1945
Departed for States, 11 December 1945
Arrived San Diego, CA, 12 January 1946
Decommissioned at Orange, TX, 29 June 1946
Reclassified as Fleet Minesweeper (Steel Hull) MSF-304, 07 February 1955
Struck from the Naval Register, 01 May 1967
Converted to a salvage training hulk
Final disposition, sunk as a target off the Virginia Capes, 14 August 1967
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