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Merganser (AM 135)

Hawk Class Minesweeper:

Built in 1937 as the steel hull trawler M/V Annapolis by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Co., Quincy, MA for General Sea Foods Corp. of Boston, MA

Renamed M/V Ocean

Acquired by the Navy 3 January 1942

Conversion to a Minesweeper by the Bethlehem Steel Co., East Boston, MA began 8 January 1942

Renamed Merganser 21 January 1942

Completed conversion and commissioned USS Merganser (AM 135), 23 May 1942

Decommissioned 1 May 1944 at Quincy, MA

Struck from the Naval Register 16 September 1944

Transferred to the Maritime Commission 29 September 1944, sold to her former owners and renamed M/V Ocean

Scrapped in 1976.

Specifications:

Displacement 590 t.

Length 147'

Beam 26'

Draft 13'

Speed 12 kts.

Armament: Two 6-pounders

Propulsion: One 650shp Cooper Bessemer diesel engine, one shaft.

Click on thumbnail for full size image	Size	Image Description		Source
	91k	Namesake: Merganser - A large, fisheating, diving duck with a long, slender, toothed beak		Tommy Trampp

Commanding Officers
01	LT Arthur Stephen Johnson, USNR	23 May 1942 - 20 June 1943
02	LT Wilmot Baines North, USNR	20 June 1943 - 15 November 1943
03	LT William Jefferson Flynn, Jr., USNR	15 November 1943 - 1 May 1944

Courtesy of Wolfgang Hechler, Ron Reeves, Peter W. North, Karl E. Johnson and R. A. Moody

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