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Bullfinch (AM 66)



Call sign:
November - Echo - Bravo - Yankee



Bullfinch Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 22 May 1937 as Villanova by the Bath Iron Works Corp., Bath, ME; Launched, 21 October 1937; Acquired by the Navy, 6 June 1940; Commissioned in ordinary, 16 August 1940; Placed in full commission as Bullfinch (AM 66), 22 October 1940; Decommissioned, 15 September 1944; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Transferred to the Maritime Commission, 28 July 1945. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 516 t.; Length 136'; Beam 24'; Draft 11' 2"; Speed 10 kts; Complement unknown; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount; Propulsion one 700hp diesel engine, one shaft.
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Bullfinch 42k . Gunter Krebs
Bullfinch 136k USS Cardinal (AM-67), inboard, and USS Bullfinch (AM-66), outboard at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, 31 October 1941. Note these minesweepers' dark paint scheme, with large white hull numbers and mine force insignia on their bows. Both have been fitted with 3"/50 deck guns.
Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S.
National Archives.
U. S. Navy Photo 19-N-25946
Naval Historical Center
Bullfinch 79k c. 1943 US Navy

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Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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