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Bulwark (AMc 68)

Call sign:
Nan - Baker - Victor - Easy

ex-Combat

Accentor Class Coastal Minesweeper: Laid down 15 April 1941 as Combat by Hodgdon Brothers and Goudy and Stevens, East Boothbay, ME; Renamed Bulwark 23 May 1941; Launched 6 October 1941; Placed in service as USS Bulwark (AMc 68), 5 February 1942 at Boston, MA; Placed out of service 18 June 1946 at the Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, MA; Struck from the Navy Register 3 July 1946; Sold to the city of Boston 12 September 1946 for use as a fire boat and renamed James McTighe after a Boston Fire Fighter killed in WWII; Taken out of service in 1972 and sold to Carribbean interests for $5,600.00.
Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 195 t.; Length 97' 1"; Beam 22'; Draft 9' 1"; Speed 10 kts.; Complement 17; Armament two .50 cal. machine guns; Propulsion one 400bhp Atlas 6HM-2124 diesel engine, one shaft.

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Source
USS Bulwark (AMc 68)
	89k	31 January 1942	Robert Hurst
Fire Boat James McTighe
	124k	c. June 1962 Passing Castle Island, Boston	©Richard Leonhardt

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U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation

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Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen

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