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Merganser (AM 135)


Hawk Class Minesweeper: Built in 1937 as the steel hull trawler M/V Annapolis by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Co., Quincy, MA; Renamed M/V Ocean; Acquired by the Navy, 3 January 1942; Commissioned USS Ibis (AM 134), 23 May 1942; Decommissioned, 1 May 1944; Struck from the Naval Register, 16 September 1944; Transferred to the Maritime Commission, 29 September 1944 and sold to General Foods Corp., Boston, MA; Renamed M/V Ocean. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 590 t.; Length 147'; Beam 26'; Draft 13'; Speed 12 kts; Complement unknown; Armament two 6-pounders; Propulsion one 650 shp Cooper Bessemer diesel engine, one shaft.
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