USS Facility (AM-233)

For other ships of the same name, see ARM DM-04.

History

United States
Name:	USS PCE-906
Builder:	Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company, Seattle
Laid down:	29 March 1944
Renamed:	USS Facility (AM-233)
Launched:	22 June 1944
Commissioned:	29 November 1944
Decommissioned:	11 September 1946
Reclassified:	MSF-233, 7 February 1955
Struck:	1 May 1962
Fate:	Transferred to Mexican Navy, 2 October 1962
History
Mexico
Name:	ARM DM-04
Acquired:	2 October 1962
Fate:	unknown
General characteristics
Class & type:	PCE-905-class patrol craft
Class & type:	Admirable-class minesweeper, September 1943
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)
Propulsion:	2 × Cooper Bessemer GSB-8 diesel engines, 1,710 shp (1,280 kW) National Supply Co. single reduction gear 2 shafts
Speed:	15 knots (28 km/h)
Complement:	104
Armament:	1 × 3"/50 caliber (76 mm) DP gun 2 × twin Bofors 40 mm guns 1 × Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar 2 × Depth charge tracks
Service record
Part of:	U.S. Pacific Fleet (1944–1946) Mexican Navy (from 1962)
Operations:	Battle of Okinawa
Awards:	3 Battle stars

USS Facility (AM-233) was an Admirable-class minesweeper built for the United States Navy during World War II. The ship was ordered and laid down as PCE-905-class patrol craft USS PCE-906 but was renamed and reclassified before her June 1944 launch as Facility (AM-233). After earning three battle stars for service in the Pacific during World War II, she was decommissioned in September 1946 and placed in reserve. While in reserve, Facility was reclassified as MSF-233 in February 1955 but never reactivated. In October 1962, she was sold to the Mexican Navy and renamed ARM DM-04. Her ultimate fate is not reported in secondary sources; she may have been out of service by April 1973 when another member of the Admirable class was acquired by the Mexican Navy and given the name DM-04.

U.S. Navy career

Initially named PCE-906 and classed as a PCE-905-class patrol craft, the ship was laid down on 29 March 1944 at the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company of Seattle. Renamed Facility and converted to an Admirable-class minesweeper, she was launched by sponsor Miss Clara Lee Davis on 22 June 1944. After completion, she was commissioned on 29 November 1944, with Lieutenant C. R. Jennette, USNR, in command.

Facility underwent shakedown training and proceeded to San Pedro, California, and thence to Pearl Harbor, arriving on 17 February. After escorting the minelayer USS Weehawken (CM-12) to Eniwetok early in March, Facility began sweeping under the command of Task Group TG 52.5 preliminary to the assault landings on Okinawa on 1 April. She continued to support the operation until damaged by a near miss during a heavy suicide attack and was forced to put into Ulithi on 22 April for repairs. She resumed sweeping operations, and, after replenishing supplies in Buckner Bay, joined Task Group TG 52.4 to participate with TG 52.3 in clearing the approaches to Nagasaki, Japan.

Late in September she swept the Bungo Suido and other areas of the Inland Sea. The rest of the year was occupied in overhaul at Hiro Wan and in sweeping the Van Dieman Straits.

In the first two months of 1946 Facility journeyed from Sasebo to Saipan, Eniwetok, and Pearl Harbor before making her first return to the States. She underwent overhaul at San Pedro, California, transited the Panama Canal on 22 March, and on to Galveston, Texas. While she remained in reserve at Galveston, she was reclassified as a Fleet Minesweeper (Steel Hull), MSF-233 on 7 February 1955. She was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 May 1962 and sold to Mexico on 2 October. USS Facility received three battle stars for World War II service.

Mexican Navy career

The former Facility was acquired by the Mexican Navy on 2 October 1962 and renamed ARM DM-04. Her fate is not reported in secondary sources; she may have been out of service by April 1973 when another member of the Admirable class was acquired by the Mexican Navy and also named DM-04.^[1]

Notes

↑ Radigan, Joseph M. (2006). "Specter (MSF 306), ex-Specter (AM 306), ex-Spector". Mine Warfare Vessel Photo Archive. NavSource Online. Retrieved 1 December 2009.

References

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
Radigan, Joseph M. (2006). "Facility (MSF 233), ex-Facility (AM 233), ex-PCE-906". Mine Warfare Vessel Photo Archive. NavSource Online. Retrieved 1 December 2009.

PCE-905-class patrol craft

PCE-905 PCE-906 PCE-907 PCE-908 PCE-909 PCE-910 PCE-911 PCE-912 PCE-913 PCE-914 PCE-915 PCE-916 PCE-917 PCE-918 PCE-919 PCE-920

List of patrol vessels of the United States Navy

Admirable-class minesweepers

Completed	Admirable Adopt Advocate Agent Alarm Alchemy Apex Arcade Arch Armada Aspire Assail Astute Augury Barrier Bombard Bond Buoyant Candid Capable Captivate Caravan Caution Change Clamour Climax Compel Concise Control Counsel Crag Creddock Cruise Deft Delegate Density Design Device Diploma Dipper Disdain Dour Dunlin Eager Elusive Embattle Execute Facility Fancy Fixity Gadwall Garland Gavia Gayety Graylag Harlequin Harrier Hazard Hilarity Implicit Improve Inaugural Incessant Incredible Indicative Inflict Instill Intrigue Invade Jubilant Knave Lance Logic Lucid Magnet Mainstay Marvel Measure Method Mirth Nimble Notable Nucleus Opponent Palisade Penetrate Peril Phantom Pinnacle Pirate Pivot Pledge Prime Project Prowess Quest Rampart Ransom Rebel Recruit Reform Refresh Reign Report Salute Saunter Scout Scrimmage Scuffle Sentry Serene Shelter Signet Skirmish Skurry Spectacle Specter Staunch Strategy Strength Success Superior

Canceled	Albatross Bluebird Bullfinch Cardinal Drake Embroil Enhance Equity Esteem Event Firecrest Flame Flicker Fortify Goldfinch Grackle Grosbeak Grouse Gull Hawk Hummer Hummer Illusive Imbue Impervious Jackdaw Jackdaw Kite Linnet Longspur Magpie Merganser Minah Osprey Parrakeet Partridge Pipit Plover Redhead Reproof Risk Rival Sagacity Sanderling Scaup Sentinel Shearwater Waxbill

Soviet Navy

T-111
T-112
T-113
T-114
T-115
T-116
T-117
T-118
T-119
T-120
T-271
T-272
T-273
T-274
T-275
T-276
T-277
T-278
T-279
T-280
T-281
T-282
T-521
T-522
T-523
T-524
T-525
T-526
T-593
T-594
T-595
T-596
T-597
T-598

Post-World War II operators

Republic of China Navy	Yung Chang Yung Chia Yung Feng Yung Ho Yung Hsiu Yung Ming Yung Ning Yung Sheng Yung Shou Yung Shun Yung Ting ex-Buoyant ex-Nimble ex-Reform

Chinese Maritime Customs Service	Yung Chun Yung Hsing Yung Kang ex-Dunlin ex-Notable

Dominican Navy	Prestol Botello Separación Tortuguero

Republic of Korea Navy	Kojin

Mexican Navy	Aldebaran Cadete Agustín Melgar Cadete Fernando Montes de Oca Cadete Francisco Márquez Cadete Juan Escutia Cadete Vicente Suárez DM-01 DM-02 DM-03 DM-04 (1962) DM-04 (1973) DM-05 DM-06 DM-07 DM-08 DM-09 DM-10 DM-11 DM-12 DM-13 DM-14 DM-15 DM-16 DM-17 DM-18 DM-19 DM-20 General Felipe Xicoténcatl General Ignacio Zaragoza General Juan N. Méndez General Manuel E. Rincón General Miguel Negrete General Pedro María Anaya Oceanográfico Teniente Juan de la Barrera

Myanmar Navy	Yan Gyi Aung

Philippine Navy part of Miguel Malvar class	Datu Tupas Magat Salamat Pagasa Samar

Republic of Vietnam Navy	Chi Lang II Chi Linh Ha Hoi Ky Hoa Nhut Tao

Preceded by: Hawk class
Followed by: Agile class

List of mine warfare vessels of the United States Navy

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