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Linnet (AM 76)
Kite Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 18 June 1928 as the fishing trawler M/V Georgetown at Bath Iron Works Corp., Bath, ME; Launched, 15 December 1928; Name changed to Linnet, 14 August 1940; Acquired by the Navy, 4 September 1940 and converted to a Minesweeper: Commissioned, USS Linnet (AM 76), 3 March 1941; Decommissioned, 18 December 1944 at Boston, MA.; Returned to the War Shipping Administration, 31 July 1945; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Converted to mercantile service and renamed Cambridge. Fate unknown.
Specifications: Displacement 410 t.; Length 123' 10"; Beam 23'; Draft 12'; Complement, unknown; Speed 10 kts.; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, and two .30 cal. machine guns; Propulsion one 400shp Fairbanks-Morse diesel engine, one shaft.
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Seen here as fishing trawler Georgetown c. 1940 about the time she was acquired by the US Navy. US Navy photo NH 101777
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c. 18 March 1941.
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