USS Salute (AM-294)
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| Name: | USS Salute |
| Builder: | Winslow Marine Railway and Shipbuilding Company |
| Laid down: | 11 November 1942 |
| Launched: | 6 February 1943 |
| Commissioned: | 4 December 1943 |
| Struck: | 11 July 1945 |
| Fate: | Struck a mine off Brunei and sank, 8 June 1945 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Admirable-class minesweeper |
| Displacement: | 795 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: | 15 knots (27.8 km/h) |
| Complement: | 104 |
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| Service record | |
| Part of: | US Pacific Fleet (1943-1945) |
| Operations: | Philippines campaign (1944–45) |
| Awards: | 5 Battle stars |
USS Salute (AM-294), was a U.S. Navy oceangoing minesweeper, laid down on 11 November 1942 by Winslow Marine Railway and Shipbuilding Co., Seattle, Washington; launched on 6 February 1943; sponsored by Miss Patricia Lindgren; and commissioned on 4 December 1943, Lt. R. H. Nelson in command.
After shakedown, Salute sailed from San Francisco on 21 March 1944 for Hawaii. Between April and September 1944, she escorted convoys between Pearl Harbor, Majuro, Kwajalein, Eniwetok, Guam, and Saipan, before reporting to the 7th Fleet at Manus on 8 October for the Leyte invasion. On 20 October, she joined her division, Mine Division 34, off the Leyte beaches for a four-day sweep of the main transport channel, and then anchored with the transports to provide antiaircraft support. Between 27 and 31 October, she helped search for survivors at the scene of the Battle off Samar, where a group of escort carriers, destroyers, and destroyer escorts, had repulsed the attack of a more powerful Japanese fleet. For the next month, she carried out local patrols and sweeps in the vicinity of Leyte.
Salute participated with her division in most of the subsequent landings in the Philippines. She carried out pre-invasion sweeps at Ormoc Bay on 6 December, Mindoro Island on 14 December, Lingayen Gulf on 6 January 1945, and Zambales and Subic Bay on 29 and 31 January. During and after the initial troop landings, she helped extend the mineswept areas and provided antisubmarine and antiaircraft protection for the transports anchored off the beaches. Few mines were encountered, but kamikaze resistance was intense, and the ships saw much antiaircraft action.
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