Allied Warships

USS Seer (AM 112)

Minesweeper of the Auk class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeMinesweeper
ClassAuk 
PennantAM 112 
Built byAmerican Shipbuilding Co. (Lorain, Ohio, U.S.A.) 
Ordered1 Apr 1941 
Laid down28 Nov 1941 
Launched23 May 1942 
Commissioned21 Oct 1942 
End service 
History

Decommissioned 26 April 1947 at Orange Texas
Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Texas Group, Orange
Recommissioned 8 November 1950
Reclassified as a Fleet Minesweeper, (Steel-hulled) MSF-112 on 7 February 1955
Decommissioned 11 March 1955 at Green Cove Springs, Florida
Reclassified as a Coastal Minesweeper MMC-5 on 31 October 1958
Transferred to the Royal Norwegian Navy 15 December 1962 and renamed Uller (N 50)
Struck from the Naval Register 1 March 1963.

 

Commands listed for USS Seer (AM 112)

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CommanderFromTo
1Cdr. Albert Frederick Block, USNR21 Oct 194220 Nov 1943
2Hiram Samuel Walker, USNR20 Nov 194315 Dec 1944
3H. R. Magnuson, USNR15 Dec 19449 Jan 1945
4Hiram Samuel Walker, USNR9 Jan 1945

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