USS Incredible (AM-249)
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| Name: | USS Incredible |
| Builder: | Savannah Machine and Foundry Company |
| Laid down: | 9 September 1943 |
| Launched: | 21 November 1943 |
| Commissioned: | 17 April 1944 |
| Decommissioned: | 6 November 1946 |
| Recommissioned: | 14 August 1950 |
| Decommissioned: | 21 September 1954 |
| Struck: | 1 December 1959 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap 1 December 1960 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Admirable-class minesweeper |
| Displacement: | 650 tons |
| 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: | 14.8 knots (27.4 km/h) |
| Complement: | 104 |
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| Operations: | Operation Dragoon, Korean War |
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USS Incredible (AM-249) was an Admirable-class minesweeper built for the U.S. Navy during World War II. She was built to clear minefields in offshore waters, and served the Navy in the North Atlantic Ocean and then in the Pacific Ocean. She returned finished the war with two battle stars to her credit. When she was recalled for duty in the Korean War, she returned home again with four more battle stars.
Incredible was launched 21 November 1943 by Savannah Machine & Foundry Co., Savannah, Georgia; sponsored by Mrs. Herbert Hezlep; and commissioned 17 April 1944, Lt. R. N. Ekland, USNR, in command.
After shakedown along the U.S. East Coast and in the Caribbean, Incredible departed Norfolk, Virginia, 24 July, escorting a convoy to North Africa for the invasion of southern France, the Allies landing 15 August. She carried out her sweeping duties very effectively, sometimes without destroyer cover. On 10 September Incredible and her group repelled an attack of 12 human torpedoes, 2 of which she destroyed. She continued her minesweeping duties off southern France until 18 January 1945 when she sailed for a special mission to Russia and the Black Sea. Incredible performed sweeping duties out of Sevastopol, Russia, then served as air-sea rescue patrol ship in the Black Sea until resuming to Palermo, Sicily, 20 February.
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