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Kingbird (AMc 56)
IX-176



Call sign:
November - Bravo - Charlie - Sierra



Dragger: Built in 1939 as Governor Saltonstall by the Quincy Drydock and Yacht Co., Quincy, MA; Acquired by the Navy, 26 December 1940; Placed in service as USS Kingbird (AMc 56), 24 July 1941; Reclassified as an Unclassified Miscellaneous Vessel IX-176, 10 July 1944; Placed out of service, 28 July 1944; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Transferred to the War Shipping Administration for disposal, 7 June 1946. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 206 t.; Length 96'; Beam 21' 6"; Draft 7'; Speed 9 kts.; Complement unknown; Armament two .30 cal. machine guns.
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