USS Scuffle
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | USS Scuffle (AM-298) |
| Builder | Winslow Marine Railway & Shipbuilding Company, Seattle |
| Laid down | 4 May 1943 |
| Launched | 8 August 1943 |
| Sponsored by | Miss Marianne Baron |
| Commissioned | 2 May 1944 |
| Decommissioned | 19 June 1946 |
| Reclassified | MSF-298, 7 February 1955 |
| Stricken | 1 May 1962 |
| Fate | Transferred to Mexican Navy, 1 October 1962 |
| Mexico | |
| Name | ARM DM-05 |
| Acquired | 1 October 1962 |
| Renamed | ARM General Felipe Xicoténcatl (C53), 1994 |
| Namesake | Felipe Xicoténcatl |
| Stricken | 2000 |
| Fate | Sunk as an artificial reef |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Admirable-class minesweeper |
| Displacement | 650 long tons (660 t) |
| 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 (28 km/h) |
| Complement | 104 |
| Armament |
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| Service record | |
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| Operations: | Philippines campaign (1944–45) |
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USS Scuffle (AM-298) was an Admirable-class minesweeper built for the United States Navy during World War II. She was awarded a Presidential Unit Citation and five battle stars for service in the Pacific during World War II. She was decommissioned in June 1946 and placed in reserve. While remaining in reserve, Scuffle was reclassified as MSF-298 in February 1955, but never reactivated. In October 1962, she was sold to the Mexican Navy and renamed ARM DM-05. In 1994, she was renamed ARM General Felipe Xicoténcatl (C53). She was sunk as an artificial reef and dive attraction off Cozumel in 1999, and was stricken from the rolls of the Mexican Navy in 2000.