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Name | USS Harrier |
Builder | Willamette Iron and Steel Works |
Laid down | 11 August 1943 |
Launched | 7 June 1944 |
Commissioned | 31 August 1945 |
Decommissioned | 28 March 1946 |
Stricken | 1 December 1959 |
Fate | Sold 1964 |
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Class and type | Admirable-class minesweeper |
Displacement | 945 tons |
Length | 184 ft 6 in (56.24 m) |
Beam | 33 ft (10 m) |
Draft | 9 ft 9 in (2.97 m) |
Installed power | 1,710 shp |
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Speed | 14.8 knots (27.4 km/h) |
Complement | 104 |
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USS Harrier (AM-366) was an Admirable-class minesweeper built for the United States Navy. Laid down on 11 August 1943 by the Willamette Iron and Steel Works, Portland, Oregon, launched 7 June 1944, commissioned as USS Harrier (AM-366), 31 October 1945.
History
[edit]After shakedown and exercises along the Oregon coast, Harrier put into San Diego, California, 5 January 1946. She decommissioned, 28 March 1946 at San Diego, California. Struck from the Naval Register, 1 December 1959. Transferred to the Maritime Commission, sold in 1964 and was renamed Sea Scope. The ship was reclassified for oceanographic research and was equipped with a variety of underwater tools including sonar, photographic equipment, magnetic and seabed exploration equipment. It is reported to have been used, circa 1970, to reconnoiter the site of the Soviet K-129 sub prior to the CIA project Azorian/Glomar Explorer to recover part of that sub in 1974.[1] It was renamed Atlantic Coast in 1998.[2]
References
[edit] This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
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