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Linnet (AM 76)
IX-166


Kite Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 18 June 1928 as the fishing trawler M/V Georgetown at Bath Iron Works Corp., Bath, ME; Launched, 15 December 1928; Name changed to Linnet, 14 August 1940; Acquired by the Navy, 4 September 1940 and converted to a Minesweeper: Commissioned, USS Linnet (AM 76), 3 March 1941; Reclassified as an Unclassified Miscellaneous Auxiliary IX-166, 20 April 1944; Decommissioned, 18 December 1944 at Boston, MA.; Returned to the War Shipping Administration, 31 July 1945; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Converted to mercantile service and renamed Cambridge. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 410 t.; Length 123' 10"; Beam 23'; Draft 12'; Complement, unknown; Speed 10 kts.; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, and two .30 cal. machine guns; Propulsion one 400shp Fairbanks-Morse diesel engine, one shaft.


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Linnet 146k Seen here as fishing trawler Georgetown c. 1940
about the time she was acquired by the US Navy.
US Navy photo NH 101777
Naval Historical Center
Linnet 80k c. 18 March 1941. DANFS

View the Linnet (AM-76)
DANFS history entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway web site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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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