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YP-166

YP-166 call sign:
November - Alpha - Zulu - Alpha

ex-Nightingale (AMc 18)

Coastal Minesweeper: Built in 1934 as Majestic by the Al Larson Boat Building Co., San Pedro, CA; Acquired by the Navy 5 November 1940; Commissioned USS Nightingale (AMc 18), 31 January 1941; Converted to a District Patrol Craft, YP-166 in May 1941; Decommissioned, struck from the Navy Register and returned to her owner, the Western Boat Building Co. of Tacoma, WA, 14 October 1944. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 197 t.; Length 83' 2"; Beam 19' 6"; Draft 9' 5"; Speed 11 kts.; Complement 17; Armament two machine guns.

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description		Source
	85k	With only her masts showing above the surface of the Columbia River after having struck a buoy near the Columbia River bar on 26 December 1941. She was raised and repaired, serving as a training craft in Puget Sound until October 1944. Photo from "Shipwrecks of the Pacific Coast" by James A. Gibbs. Photo by Captain Loring Hyde.		Mike Green

View the Nightingale (AMc 18)
DANFS history entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway web site

Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen

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