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Photo # NH 96910:  USS Shoveler, circa 1951-1952

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-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Shoveler (AM-382, later MSF-382), 1945-1960

USS Shoveler, an 890-ton Auk class minesweeper, was built at Chickasaw, Alabama. Commissioned in May 1945, she sailed for the Pacific a few months later, as World War II was coming to an end. From October 1945 to April 1946, Shoveler was employed clearing minefields around Japan. She then returned to the United States, and was decommissioned in November 1946.

The Korean War crisis brought Shoveler back into active service in July 1951. Following operations off the U.S. West Coast, she was sent to the Far East, serving off Korea from May 1952 until late in the year, when she left for home. Shoveler again deployed to the Western Pacific in October 1954 and took part in the Tachen Islands evacuation in February 1955. In that month, she was redesignated MSF-382. Her deployment ended the following June. After another year of West Coast service, she was decommissioned in September 1956. USS Shoveler was loaned to Peru in November 1960 and sold to that nation in 1974. She served in the Peruvian Navy and Coast Guard as Diez Canseco until 1981.

This page features views of USS Shoveler (AM-382).


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Photo #: NH 96910

USS Shoveler
(AM-382)

Photographed circa 1951-52, shortly after she was recommissioned for Korean War service.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 110KB; 740 x 615 pixels

 
Photo #: 80-G-632291

USS Laertes (AR-20)


At Sasebo, Japan, with nine minesweepers and a harbor tug alongside. Original photo is dated 8 October 1952.
Ships nested to left of Laertes are (from left):
USS Impeccable (AM-320);
USS Gladiator (AM-319);
USS Shoveler (AM-382);
USS Defense (AM-317) and
USS Devastator (AM-318).
Those nested to right are (from left):
USS Condor (AMS-5);
USS Kite (AMS-22);
USS Curlew (AMS-8);
USS Chatterer (AMS-40) and
Wallacut (YTB-420).

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Online Image: 68KB; 740 x 605 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 


In addition to the images presented above, the National Archives appears to hold at least a few other views of USS Shoveler (AM-382), taken during the 1950s. The following list features these images.

The images listed below are NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections.
DO NOT try to obtain them using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."



  • Photo #: USN 1045528
    USS Shoveler (AM-382) underway during the early 1950s.
    Port bow aerial view. This photograph was received in December 1959.

  • Photo #: USN 1106361
    USS Shoveler (AM-382) underway during the 1950s.
    Starboard stern aerial view. This photograph, taken by Ted Stone, was received in October 1964.


    Reproductions of these images should be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system for pictures not held by the Naval Historical Center.

    The images listed in this box are NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections. DO NOT try to obtain them using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


  • If you want higher resolution reproductions than the Online Library's digital images, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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    Page made 5 September 1999
    Text corrected 27 September 2005