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Nightingale (AMc 18)
YP-166
Coastal Minesweeper: Built in 1934 as Majestic by the Al Larson Boat Building Co., San Pedro, CA; Acquired by to the Navy, 5 November 1940; Commissioned USS Nightingale (AMc 18), 31 January 1941; Converted to a Patrol Craft and reclassified YP-166, May 1941; Decommissioned and struck from the Naval Register, 14 October 1944 and returned to her owner. Fate unknown.
Specifications: Displacement 197 t.; Length 83' 2"; Beam 19' 6"; Draft 9' 5"; Speed 11 kts.; Complement 17; Armament two machine guns.
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