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USCGC Heather (WLB 331)
ex-WAGL-331
ex-USS Obstructor (ACM 7)
ex-USAMP 1st Lieutenant William G. Sylvester
Obstructor served the US Army, Navy and Coast Guard
Chimo Class Auxiliary Minelayer: Laid down in 1941 for the U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps, Mine Planter Service as USAMP 1st Lieutenant William G. Sylvester at Marietta Manufacturing Co., Point Pleasant, WV; Launched in 1942; Transferred to the Navy, 4 January 1945 and converted to an Auxiliary Minelayer at Charleston Navy Yard; Commissioned USS Obstructor (ACM 7), 1 April 1945; Decommissioned, 28 June 1946 and transferred to the Coast Guard; Struck from the Naval Register, 19 July 1946; Commissioned USCGC Heather (WAGL 331), 1 February 1947; Reclassified WLB-331 in 1965; Decommissioned, 15 December 1967; Transferred to Seattle, WA 12 April 1968. Fate unknown.
Specifications: Displacement 1,300 t.; Length 188' 2"; Beam 37'; Draft 12' 6"; Speed 12.5 kts.; Complement 69; Armament one single 40mm gun mount, four 20mm mounts; Propulsion two Combustion Engineering header type boilers, two 1,200shp Skinner Unaflow reciprocating engines, no reduction gear, two shafts.
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USS Observer (ACM 7)
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49k |
15 June 1946
Arriving back at San Francisco, CA |
Mel Haas MM/3c
Former crew member |
USCGC Heather (WAGL 331)
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60k |
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Robert Hurst |
USCGC Heather (WLB 331)
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50k |
c. 1967 |
Robert Hurst |
View the Obstructor (ACM 7)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
View the Heather (WLB 331)
history at the Coast Guard History Web Site
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
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Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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