USS Broadbill (AM-58)
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Name | USS Broadbill |
Builder | Defoe Shipbuilding Company, Bay City, Michigan |
Laid down | 1942 |
Launched | 21 May 1942 |
Commissioned | 21 July 1943 |
Decommissioned | 3 June 1946 |
Recommissioned | 19 March 1952 |
Decommissioned | 24 January 1954 |
Reclassified | MSF-58, 7 February 1965 |
Stricken | 1 July 1972 |
Honours and awards | 2 battle stars (World War II) |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 1 December 1973 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Auk-class minesweeper |
Displacement | 890 long tons (904 t) |
Length | 221 ft 3 in (67.44 m) |
Beam | 32 ft (9.8 m) |
Draft | 10 ft 9 in (3.28 m) |
Speed | 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph) |
Complement | 100 officers and enlisted |
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USS Broadbill (AM-58), was an Auk-class minesweeper of the United States Navy, named after the broadbill, a hunters' nickname for the greater scaup, a diving duck common in the winter along the Atlantic coast. Broadbill was launched on 21 May 1942 at the Defoe Shipbuilding Company in Bay City, Michigan, sponsored by Mrs. A. Loring Swasey, wife of Captain Swasey. She was commissioned on 13 October 1942.
Service history
1942–1946
After commissioning, Broadbill reported at
Until April 1944, she escorted
On 5 June 1944 Broadbill, as a unit of
She then proceeded to
On 17 September 1945, in company with
1952–1954
Recommissioned on 19 March 1952, Broadbill operated off the California coast until 27 June 1952. She then sailed to Charleston, South Carolina, arriving there on 15 July. During the remainder of 1952, she operated out of Charleston and conducted one Caribbean training cruise.
In January 1953, she proceeded to the
Broadbill was struck from the Navy list on 1 July 1972, and disposed of by Navy sale on 1 December 1973.
References
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
External links
- Photo gallery of USS Broadbill (AM-58/MSF-58) at NavSource Naval History