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Curlew (AM 69) / (IX 170)


Laid down in 1938 as Kittiwake by the Charleston Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Charleston, SC; Purchased by the Navy, 6 August 1940 and converted to a Minesweeper at Boston, MA; Commissioned, 7 November 1940 as USS Curlew (AM 69); Reclassified, 1 June 1944 as a Miscellaneous Unclassified Vessel (IX-170); Decommissioned, 5 December 1945 at Newport, RI; Transferred to the Maritime Commission, 27 September 1946 for disposal; Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown; Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 570 t.; Length 147' 10"; Beam 28' 8"; Draft 12'; Complement, unknown; Speed 10 kts.; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount.
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Curlew 46k . Gunter Krebs

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