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Bittern (AMCU / MHC 43)


Bittern Class Coastal Minehunter (Underwater Locator): Laid down, 18 August 1955 by the Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp., City Island, NY; Launched, 4 March 1957; Commissioned USS Bittern (AMCU 43), 26 August 1957; Redesignated as a Coastal Minehunter MHC-43, 7 February 1955; Decommisioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, 1 February 1972; Sold, 19 December 2000 to Baltimore Marine Industries, Baltimore, MD for scrapping.

Specifications: Displacement 358 t.; Length 144' 5"; Beam 28'; Draft 8'; Speed 14 kts.; Complement 44; Armament one 40-mm mount, two 20-mm, and two dcp; Propulsion two 600 shp General Motors diesel engines, two shafts.
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Bittern 27k Launching. Gunter Krebs
Bittern 47k Builder's trials.
Courtesy of City Island Nautical Museum
Tom Nye
Bittern 34k . Gunter Krebs
Bittern 42k Baltimore Marine Industries, 15 January 2001. Save An MSO Web Site
Dick Lewis

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DANFS history entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway web site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

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Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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