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AMc-15 Waxbill

Call sign: November - India - Quebec - Whiskey
Built in 1936 at Antioch, CA as the wooden-hulled purse seiner Leslie J. Fulton by F. L. Fulton. Purchased by the Navy, 19 November 1940 for eventual conversion to a Coastal Minesweeper; Commissioned as USS AMc-15, 26 November 1940; Named USS Waxbill (AMc-15), 27 November 1940; Decommissioned, 20 January 1941 and entered General Engineering and Drydock Co., Alameda, CA for conversion to a Coastal Minesweeper; Recommissioned and placed in service, 19 February 1941; Decommissioned, 12 September 1944; Struck from the Naval Register, 14 October 1944; Transferred, 6 January 1945 to the Maritime Commission's War Shipping Administration and sold to her original owner, F. L. Fulton. Fate unknown.
Specifications: Displacement 195 t.; Length 83' 2"; Beam 20' 11"; Draft 5'; Depth of Hold 10'; Speed 10 kts; Complement 11; Armament one .30 cal. machine gun; Propulsion diesel.
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