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Kite (AM 75)
Kite Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 18 June 1928 as the trawler Holy Cross by the Bath Iron Works, Bath, ME; Launched, 24 November 1928; Acquired by the Navy, 11 September 1940; Commissioned Kite (AM 75), 3 March 1941; Decommissioned, 14 August 1944 at Quincy, MA; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Transferred to the War Shipping Administration, 2 March 1945 and sold. Fate unknown.
Specifications: Displacement 482 t.; Length 124' 3"; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 6"; Speed 9 kts; Complement unknown; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount; Propulsion, one 360hp diesel engine, one shaft.
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