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Grebe (AT 134)
ex-AM-43

Grounded and lost 6 December 1942
Lapwing Class Minesweeper: Laid down 25 May 1918 by the Staten Island Steam Boat Co., Staten Island, NY; Launched, 17 December 1918; Commissioned USS Grebe, Minesweeper No. 43, 1 May 1919 at Brooklyn Navy Yard; Designated AM-43, 17 July 1920; Decommissioned, 12 May 1922; Recommissioned, 15 November 1922; Reclassified as a Fleet Tug, AT-134, 1 June 1942; Lost due to grounding, 6 December 1942 at Vuanta Vatoa, Fiji and hurricane damage, 1-2 January 1943; Struck from the Navy Register 28 July 1943.

Specifications: Displacement 950 t.; Length 187' 10"; Beam 35' 6"; Draft 8' 10"; Speed 14 kts; Complement 78; Armament two 3"; Propulsion two Babcock & Wilcox boilers, one triple expansion reciprocating steam engine,
one shaft.

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Grebe 62k . Jon Burdett
Grebe 17k c. 1921/22. Panama Canal. Dave Spence
Grebe Crew 83k Grebe crew photo, c. 1938/40. Signalman August Billig is 10th from the left, back row. Bruce Billig
Grebe 147k U.S. Navy photo from "Our Fighting Ships" by Mitchell D. Katz, Jr., Herbert C. Lee and Edwil L. Levy, Jr., Harper and Brothers, 1942 Derick S. Hartshorn
View the Grebe (AM-43)
DANFS history entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway web site
Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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