''Reign'' (AM-288) was an

Admirable-class The ''Admirable'' class was one of the largest and most successful classes of minesweepers ordered by the United States Navy during World War II. Typically, minesweepers detected and removed naval mines before the rest of the fleet arrived, the ...

minesweeper built for the U.S. Navy during World War II. She was built at the

General Engineering & Dry Dock Company General Engineering & Dry Dock Company was a shipbuilding and ship repair company in Alameda, California that was active from the 1920s through the 1940s. The company built ships for the Southern Pacific Railroad and the United States Coast Gua ...

, of Alameda, California and completed in 1946, but she was never commissioned. ''Reign'' remained in the

Pacific Reserve Fleet The United States Navy maintains a number of its ships as part of a reserve fleet, often called the "Mothball Fleet". While the details of the maintenance activity have changed several times, the basics are constant: keep the ships afloat and ...

until struck from the Navy list 1 November 1959. During that time, however, she was redesignated MSF-288 on 7 February 1955.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Reign (AM-288) Admirable-class minesweepers Ships built in Alameda, California 1944 ships World War II minesweepers of the United States