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Finch (AM 9)


Finch served the Navies of the United States and Imperial Japan.

Abandoned 10 April 1942


Lapwing Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 22 August 1917 by the Standard Shipbuilding Co., New York, NY; Launched, 30 March 1918; Commissioned USS Finch (AM 9), 10 September 1918; Placed in reduced commission, 1 March 1929 at San Pedro, CA; Placed in full commission, 29 August 1920; Damaged by near miss from Japanese bomb at Corregidor, 9 April 1942; Abandoned to sink, 10 April 1942; Struck from the Naval Register, 8 May 1942; Salvaged by the Japanese and renamed IJN No. P-103; Sunk off Indochina 12 January 1945 by units of Task Force 38.

Specifications: Displacement 950 t.; Length 187' 10"; Beam 35' 6"; Draft 9' 10"; Speed 14 kts; Complement 72; Armament two 3" guns; Propulsion triple expansion reciprocating steam engine, two Babcock and Wilcox boilers, one shaft.


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Finch 62k From inside a motor whale boat approaching Finch Van Barbre
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John Barbre
Finch 76k . Van Barbre
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John Barbre
Finch 76k U. S. Navy photo from the Navy Recruitment Bureau, New York Jon Burdett
Finch 83k Tsingtao Harbor, China. 10 January 1939. James D. McGrew
Finch/Pigeon 16k Finch towing Pigeon (ASR 6) free after she had run aground.
c. 1 October 1939
Photo taken from the deck of the Augusta.
James D. McGrew

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