History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Chickadee |
Namesake | chickadee |
Builder | Defoe Shipbuilding Company, Bay City, Michigan |
Laid down | 1942 |
Launched | 20 July 1942 |
Commissioned | 9 November 1943 |
Decommissioned | 15 May 1946 |
Reclassified | MSF-59, 7 February 1965 |
Honours and awards | |
Fate | Transferred to Uruguay, 18 August 1966 |
Stricken | 1 August 1976 |
History | |
Uruguay | |
Name | ROU Comandante Pedro Campbell |
Acquired | 18 August 1966 |
Decommissioned | 18 March 2003 |
Stricken | 12 December 2003 |
Fate | Scrapped, 2005 |
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 Chickadee (AM-59) was an Auk-class minesweeper of the United States Navy, named after the Chickadee, a family of small passerine birds which appear in North America and Africa.
Chickadee was launched on 20 July 1942 at the Defoe Shipbuilding Company in Bay City, Michigan; sponsored by Mrs. George Buchanan Coale (Mary Woolfolk Rule Coale). She was commissioned on 9 November 1942 and reported to the Atlantic Fleet.