General Engineering & Dry Dock Company, Alameda, California
Laid down
24 June 1941
Launched
12 February 1942
Commissioned
14 October 1942
Decommissioned
31 May 1946
Reclassified
AGS-19
Recommissioned
14 April 1952
Decommissioned
1 August 1968
Stricken
30 June 1968
Honours and awards
4 battle stars (World War II)
Fate
Sold for scrap, 2 November 1971
General characteristics
Class and type
Auk-class minesweeper
Displacement
890 long tons (904 t)
Length
221 ft 3 in (67.44 m)
Beam
32 ft (9.8 m)
Draft
10 ft 9 in (3.28 m)
Speed
18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Complement
100 officers and enlisted
Armament
1 × 3"/50 caliber gun
2 × 40 mm guns
8 × 20 mm guns
2 × Depth charge tracks
USS Sheldrake (AM-62/AGS-19) was an Auk-class minesweeper built for the United States Navy during World War II. The ship was named after the sheldrake duck. The ship earned four battle stars during World War II. She was converted to a survey ship and re-designated AGS-19 in 1952 and remained in commission until 1968. She was sold for scrap in 1971.
USSSheldrake (AM-62/AGS-19) was an Auk-class minesweeper built for the United States Navy during World War II. The ship was named after the sheldrake...
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Navy and spent World War II serving in the Pacific theatre aboard the USSSheldrake as a mine sweeping specialist. On January 18, 1946 Muller received a...
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was a Forester-class composite screw gunboat launched in 1875 as HMS Sheldrake. She was renamed HMS Drake when she became a training ship in 1888. She...
2010. Retrieved 10 August 2012. Rupert Sheldrake. "The Crop Circle Making Competition" (PDF). Rupert Sheldrake. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7...
Revised ed.). Cave Diving Group. February 2008. ISBN 978-0-901031-04-4. Sheldrake, Sean, Pollock, Neal W. Steller D, Lobel L (eds.). "Alcohol and Diving"...
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Archived from the original on 9 April 2017. Retrieved 8 April 2017. Sheldrake, S; Pedersen, R; Schulze, C; Donohue, S; Humphrey, A (2011). "Use of Tethered...
Beach Boys) June 28 Chris Hani, South African politician (d. 1993) Rupert Sheldrake, British biochemist Frank Zane, American professional bodybuilder and...
Association. October 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 August 2011. Sheldrake, S.; Pedersen, R.; Schulze, C.; Donohue, S.; Humphrey, A (2011). Pollock...
56000°E / 51.89667; 1.56000) with the loss of five of her crew. Survivors were rescued by HMS Sheldrake ( Royal Navy) and two British fishing trawlers....
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