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Goldcrest (AM 80)
Goldcrest Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 1928 as the trawler Shawmut by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., Quincy, MA; Launched, (date unknown); Acquired by the Navy and commissioned Goldcrest (AM 80), 15 May 1941 at the Boston Navy Yard; Decommissioned, 12 December 1945; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Sold to her former owner, 20 June 1946. Fate unknown.
Specifications: Displacement 400 t.; Length 122' 6"; Beam 23'; Draft 11'; Speed 11 kts; Complement unknown; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount; Propulsion, one diesel engine, one shaft.
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