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Linnet (IX-166)



Call sign:
Nan - Item - Sugar - Fox

ex-AM-76

Converted Minesweeper:
  • Built by Bath Iron Works, Bath, ME (YN 121)
  • Laid down, 18 June 1928
  • Launched, 15 December 1928
  • Delivered to F.J. O'Hara & Sons, Boton, MA, as beam trawler Georgetown (ON 228098), 19 December 1928
  • Acquired by Navy, 04 September 1940
  • Converted to minesweeper by Bethelem Steel Co., East Boston, MA, September 1940 - March 1941
  • Commissioned USS Linnet (AM-76), 03 March 1941
  • Reclassified as Unclassified Miscellaneous Auxiliary IX-166, 20 April 1944
  • Decommissioned at Boston, MA, 18 December 1944
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 20 January 1945
  • Transferred to WSA (War Shipping Administration) for disposal, 31 July 1945
  • Registered to Trawler Cambridge, Inc. as Cambridge, 1945
  • Later registered to Earl Stroman, New Bedford, MA
  • Final disposition, out of documentation, 1977
    Specifications:
    Hull Steel
    Displacement 410 tons displacement
    Length 123' 10"
    Beam 23' 0"
    Draft 12' 0"
    Speed 10 knots
    Complement unknown
    Armament
    one 3"/23 gun
    two .30 calliber machine guns
    Propulsion
    one Fairbanks-Morse diesel
    single propeller, 400hp
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    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    Trawler Georgetown
    Linnet
    110207601    		 146k Seen here as trawler Georgetown c. 1940 about the time she was acquired by the U.S. Navy
    U.S. Navy photo NH 101777    		 Naval Historical Center
    Namesake
    Linnet
    110207603    		 21k The linnet is a small songbird of the finch family found in Europe, Africa and Asia. Tommy Trampp
    USS Linnet (AM-76)
    Linnet
    110207602    		 100k Underway, 04 February 1941. Original photo: Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
    Replacement photo: Robert Hurst
    Kite
    110207503    		 149k 2 August 1941
    USS Kite (AM 75) and USS Linnet receiving post-commissioning alterations at Wet Slip No. 3, Norfolk Navy Yard, 02 August 1941.
    Photos by George Strock, Life Magazine, used for educational and non-commercial purpose    		 John Chiquoine / Brian Baird
    Kite
    110207504    		 313k
    Linnet
    110207604    		 294k
    Commanding Officers
    01LCDR William Burton Holden, USN3 March 1941
    02LT Theodore Wolcott, USNR15 June 1941
    03LT Merritt Berner, USNR29 December 1941
    04LTJG Herbert Edward Ost, USNR12 November 1943
    05LT William Paul Croxton, USNR15 May 1944 - 18 December 1944
    Courtesy of Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves
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