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Mockingbird (AMc 28)

Call sign:
Nan - Charlie - Charlie - King

Coastal Minesweeper:

Built in 1936 as Rio Douro by the Morse Shipyards, Thomaston, ME

Acquired by the Navy 30 October 1940

Renamed Mockingbird 14 November 1940

Commissioned USS Mockingbird (AMc 28), 12 June 1941

Decommissioned 18 February 1944

Struck from the Navy Register 29 July 1944

Transferred to the War Shipping Administration for disposal 23 July 1945

Fate unknown.

Specifications:

Displacement 189 t.

Length 96'

Beam 21'

Draft 9' 6"

Speed 10 kts.

Armament: Six .30 cal. machine guns

Propulsion: One 6-cylinder direct reversible Cooper Bessemer diesel engine, one shaft.

Click on thumbnail for full size image	Size	Image Description	Source
Rio Douro
	126k	Underway in harbor, prior to her Navy service U.S. Navy photo NH 102181	Naval Historical Center
	100k	In harbor, prior to her Navy service U.S. Navy photos NH 102182, NH 102183, NH 102184 and 102185
	133k
	81k
	425k
USS Mockingbird (AMc 28)
	67k	Namesake: *Mockingbird* - A small bird of the thrush family, which imitates the calls of other birds; found in the southern United States	Tommy Trampp Photo added 15 December 2021
	425k	c. 1943 Off the U.S. east coast. Note acoustic minesweeping "hammer" mounted on her bow National Archives photo 80-G-411694	Naval History and Heritage Command

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