AM-119 USS Sustain
Mine-Sweeper
Displacement: 810-840 tons
Length: 220'6"-221'2"
Beam: 32'-32'2"
Draft: 9'4"-10'9"
Speed: 17 knots
Armament: 1 or 2 3"/50
Complement: 105
Diesel engine or diesel engine with electric drive,
twin screws, 3,500 h.p.
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Call sign: November - Bravo - Golf - Kilo
Sustain (MMC-2)ex-MSF-11
ex-AM-119
ex-AM-119
Sustain served the Navies of the United States and Norway.
Auk Class Minesweeper/Strive Class Minelayer:
Laid down, 17 November 1941 at American Shipbuilding Co., Cleveland, OH.
Launched, 23 June 1942.
Commissioned USS Sustain (AM-119), 9 November 1942.
Placed out of commission, in reserve, 17 June 1946 at San Diego, CA and laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego Group.
Recommissioned, 14 January 1952.
Placed out of commission, in-reserve, 9 October 1954 at Green Cove Springs, FL and laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Florida Group.
Reclassified MSF-119, 5 February 1955
Conversion to a Coastal Minelayer began 15 September 1958 at Charleston Naval Shipyard, Charleston, SC: Reclassified as MMC-2, 31 October 1958.
Conversion completed 30 September 1959.
Struck from the Naval Register 1 October 1959 and transferred to Norway as Tyr (N 47) . Fate unknown.