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Goldfinch (AM 77)
Goldfinch Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 6 June 1929 as the trawler Fordham by the Bath Iron Works, Bath, ME; Launched, 3 January 1930; Acquired by the Navy, 18 September 1940; Commissioned Goldfinch (AM 77), 30 January 1941 at the Boston Navy Yard; Decommissioned, 18 August 1944 at Boston, MA; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Transferred to the Maritime Commission, 9 January 1946 and sold to the Norwegian Shipping and Trade Commission, New York, NY. Fate unknown.
Specifications: Displacement 455 t.; Length 132' 4"; Beam 24'; Draft 9' 8"; Speed 10 kts; Complement unknown; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount; Propulsion, one 500hp diesel engine, one shaft.
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