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Bittern (MHC 43)
ex-AMCU-43

Bittern Class Coastal Minehunter (Underwater Locator): Laid down 18 August 1955 by the Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp., City Island, NY; Launched 4 March 1957; Commissioned USS Bittern (AMCU 43), 26 August 1957; Reclassified as a Coastal Minehunter, MHC-43, 7 February 1955; Decommisioned 1 September 1965; Struck from the Navy Register 1 February 1972; Sold for scrap 19 December 2000 to Baltimore Marine Industries of Baltimore, MD.

Specifications: Displacement 358 t.; Length 144' 5"; Beam 28'; Draft 8'; Speed 14 kts.; Complement 44; Armament one 40-mm mount, two 20-mm, and two dcp; Propulsion two 600 shp General Motors diesel engines, two shafts.

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Bittern 27k Launching. Gunter Krebs
Bittern 68k Launching
U.S. Navy photo from the February 1958 issue of All Hands magazine		 Joe Radigan
Bittern 27k Bittern was the last vessel built by Consolidated Shipbuilding before they closed down in 1958.
City Island Nautical Museum photo.		 Tom Nye
Bittern 34k c. 1958 Gunter Krebs
Bittern 55k U.S. Navy photo from the March 1960 issue of All Hands magazine Joe Radigan
Bittern 42k 15 January 2001
Baltimore Marine Industries		 Save An MSO Web Site
Dick Lewis
View the USS Bittern (MHC 43) Crew Photos
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U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
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Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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