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Bastion (ACM 6)



Bastion served the US Army, Navy and Coast Guard
Chimo Class Auxiliary Minelayer: Laid down, 1941 for the U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps, Mine Planter Service
as Colonel Henry J. Hunt at Marietta Manufacturing Co., Point Pleasant, WV; Launched, 1942; Transferred to the Navy, 4 January 1945 and converted to an Auxiliary Minelayer; Commissioned USS Bastion (ACM 6), 9 April 1945; Decommissioned, 18 June 1946 and transferred to the Coast Guard the same day; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Commissioned, 29 August 1946 and renamed USCGC Jonquil (WLB 330); Decommissioned, 15 December 1969. Fate unknown.
Specifications: Displacement 880 t.; Length 188' 2"; Beam 37'; Draft 12' 6"; Speed 12 kts; Complement 69; Armament one 40mm gun mount, four 20mm mounts; Propulsion, steam reciprocating engines, twin screws, 1,200 shaft hp.
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