USS Roselle (AM-379)
Roselle in Mobile Bay on 16 February 1945 | |
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Name | USS Roselle (AM-379) |
| Builder | Gulf Shipbuilding Corp., Chickasaw, Alabama |
| Laid down | 24 February 1944 |
| Launched | 29 August 1944 |
| Commissioned | 6 February 1945 |
| Decommissioned | 20 June 1946 |
| Reclassified | MSF-379, 7 February 1955 |
| Stricken | 1 July 1972 |
| Fate | Sold to Mexico, 1 February 1973 |
| Mexico | |
| Name | ARM Melchor Ocampo (C78) |
| Namesake |
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| Acquired | 1 February 1973 |
| Renamed | ARM Manuel Gutiérrez Zamora (P109), 1993 |
| Reclassified | G10 |
| Status | in active service, as of 2007 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Auk-class minesweeper |
| Displacement | 890 long tons (904 t) |
| Length | 221 ft 3 in (67.44 m) |
| Beam | 32 ft (9.8 m) |
| Draft | 10 ft 9 in (3.28 m) |
| Speed | 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph) |
| Complement | 100 officers and enlisted |
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USS Roselle (AM-379) was an Auk-class minesweeper acquired by the United States Navy for the dangerous task of removing mines from minefields laid in the water to prevent ships from passing. She was the second United States Navy warship to be so named.
Roselle was laid down 24 February 1944, by the Gulf Shipbuilding Corp., Chickasaw, Alabama; launched 29 August 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Louis E. Griffith; and commissioned 6 February 1945.