Everything about USS Specter
Minesweeper of the United States Navy
USS Specter (AM-306) was an Admirable-class minesweeper built for the United States Navy during World War II. She was originally ordered, laid down, and launched as USS Spector (AM-306), but was renamed the correctly spelled Specter in March 1944. She was awarded four battle stars for service in the Pacific during World War II. She was decommissioned in 1946 and placed in reserve. While she remained in reserve, Specter was reclassified as MSF-306 in February 1955 but never reactivated. In April 1973, she was sold to the Mexican Navy and renamed ARM DM-04. In 1994 she was renamed ARM General Manuel E. Rincón (C52). She was stricken in July 2001, but her ultimate fate is not reported in secondary sources. Wikipedia →
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The Specter of Orientalism in Europe: From Exotic Other to Stigmatized Brother
Examining bacterial species under the specter of gene transfer and exchange
Spontaneous arterial perforation: The Ehlers-Danlos specter
Climate change brings the specter of new infectious diseases
From the specter of Mao to the spirit of the law: Labor insurgency in China
The Specter of Fuel-Based Lighting
Specter: linear deconvolution for targeted analysis of data-independent acquisition mass spectrometry proteomics
Multinational corporations and the EU Emissions Trading System: The specter of asset erosion and creeping deindustrialization
🆕 Influential since 2022
When Shutting the Door Won’t Do: Teaching With the Specter of Community Backlash and the Implications for Teacher Education
The specter of global ByteDance: platforms, regulatory arbitrage, and politics
The political economy of monetary-fiscal coordination: central bank losses and the specter of central bankruptcy in Europe and Japan
The specter of empty countrysides and wetlands—Impact of hunting take on birds in Indo‐Burma
California’s digital divide and the specter of data uncertainty for evaluating broadband coverage
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USS SpecterSissy Marlyn · 2010
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