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Chickadee (MSF 59)
ex-AM-59

Call sign:
November - Bravo - Echo - Lima

Chickadee served the Navies of the United States and Uruguay

Auk Class Minesweeper:

Laid down 21 August 1941 by the Defoe Boat and Marine Works, Bay City, MI

Launched 20 July 1942

Commissioned USS Chickadee (AM 59), 9 November 1942

Decommissioned 15 May 1946 at Astoria, OR

Naval Vessel Register of 1 January 1949 lists decommissioning and placed in reserve date as December 1945

Reclassified as a Fleet Minesweeper (Steel Hull), MSF-59, 7 February 1955

Transferred to Uruguay 18 August 1966 and renamed ROU Comandante Pedro Campbell (MSF 1)

Arrived in Uruguay 3 October 1966

Struck from the Navy Register 1 August 1976

Reclassified MS-31

Reclassified as a Corvette, C-4, 23 November 1979

Reclassified A-24

Commenced a major overhaul 1 October 1986 for Antarctic expeditions

Overhaul completed in December 1989

Designated as an Antarctic and Oceanographic Support Vessel in May 1990

Underway for her first Antarctic cruise 15 January 1991

Decommissioned 18 March 2003

Struck from the Uruguayan Navy Register 12 December 2003

Being used as a training hulk for abandon ship drills as of 2006 at Escuela de Especialidades (Specialties School), Montevideo premier training facility, which is a combination boot camp, "A" schools and

"C" schools.

Specifications:

Displacement 890 t.

Length 221' 2"

Beam 32' 2"

Draft 10' 9"

Speed 18.1 kts.

Complement 105

Armament: One 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, two 40mm gun mounts, eight 20mm guns, two depth charge tracks, and five depth charge projectors

Propulsion: Two 1,559shp ALCO 539 diesel electric engines, Westinghouse single reduction gear, two shafts.

Click on thumbnail for full size image	Size	Image Description	Source
Chickadee
	47k	Namesake: Chickadee - One of the tamest and most familiar of North American birds	Tommy Trampp Photo added 24 March 2020
ROU Comandante Pedro Campbell (MSF 1)
	238k	c. 1971 Uruguayan Navy photo	Robert Hurst
ROU Comandante Pedro Campbell (MS 31)
	77k	Courtesy of the Uruguayan Navy via CAPT Rodolfo Cuñarro	Orlando Gallardo, Jr.
ROU Comandante Pedro Campbell (C 4)
	135k	Courtesy of the Uruguayan Navy via CAPT Rodolfo Cuñarro	Orlando Gallardo, Jr.
ROU Comandante Pedro Campbell (A 24)
	112k	Courtesy of the Uruguayan Navy via CAPT Rodolfo Cuñarro	Orlando Gallardo, Jr.
	80k
	169k
Training Hulk Campbell
	111k	Bow view of training hulk Thanks to the cooperation of the 'Escuela de Especialidades de la Armada' and its director CAPT Orlando Mara	Orlando Gallardo, Jr.
	122k	Training hulk looking forward from amidships Thanks to the cooperation of the 'Escuela de Especialidades de la Armada' and its director CAPT Orlando Mara
	135k	Training hulk looking aft from amidships Thanks to the cooperation of the 'Escuela de Especialidades de la Armada' and its director CAPT Orlando Mara
	139k	Stern of training hulk Thanks to the cooperation of the 'Escuela de Especialidades de la Armada' and its director CAPT Orlando Mara
	132k	Stern of training hulk Thanks to the cooperation of the 'Escuela de Especialidades de la Armada' and its director CAPT Orlando Mara
	88k	Training hulk Thanks to the cooperation of the 'Escuela de Especialidades de la Armada' and its director CAPT Orlando Mara

Commanding Officers
01	LCDR Griffith B. Coale, USN	9 November 1942
02	LT William Donald Allen, USN	29 July 1943
03	LT William N. Swift, USN	1 January 1945
04	LT Edgar Samuel Downs, USN	1 April 1945
05	LT Paul B. Campagna, USN	11 October 1945 - 15 May 1946

Courtesy of Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves

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ex-AM-59