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Grosbeak (AMc 19)
Call sign:
Nan - Uncle - Fox - Peter
Coastal Minesweeper:
Built in 1935 as
F/V Del Rio
by J. M. Martinac, Tacoma, WA
Acquired by the Navy in 1940
Commissioned
USS Grosbeak (AMc 19)
, 11 November 1940
Decommissioned 12 September 1944
Struck from the Naval Register 14 October 1944
Transferred to the War Shipping Administration 2 April 1945 and returned to her former owner at San Pedro, CA
Caught fire 28 October 1952 off Anacapa Island, Channel Islands, CA
F/V Sea Rover
removed 11 survivors and transported them to San Pedro
Del Rio
drifted up on the beach and sank between Big Anacapa Island and Little Anacapa Island at 34° 00' N, 119° 24' W.
Specifications:
Displacement 185 t.
Length 81' 2"
Beam 21' 5"
Draft 9' 8"
Speed 10 kts.
Complement 16
Armament: Two .50 cal. machine guns
Propulsion: One diesel engine, one shaft.
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Namesake:
Any of several species of finches, having a thick, strong, conical bill.
Tommy Trampp
Photo added 10 December 2021
93k
14 April 1941
Original photo: Gunter Krebs
Replacement photo: Robert Hurst
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Grosbeak (AMc 19)
DANFS
history entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway website
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