| History | |
|---|---|
 United States | |
| Name | USS Goldcrest |
| Builder | Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., Quincy, Massachusetts |
| Launched | 1938, as MV Shawmut |
| Acquired | 29 November 1940 |
| Commissioned | 15 May 1941 |
| Decommissioned | 12 December 1945 |
| Renamed | USS Goldcrest, 12 December 1940 |
| Fate | Sold to former owner, 20 June 1946 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Naval trawler |
| Displacement | 400 long tons (406 t) |
| Length | 122 ft 6 in (37.34 m) |
| Beam | 23 ft (7.0 m) |
| Draft | 11 ft (3.4 m) |
| Propulsion | 1 × 600 shp (447 kW) Atlas 6H M3358 diesel engine, no reduction gear, one shaft |
| Speed | 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
| Complement | 36 |
| Armament | 1 × 3"/50 caliber gun |
USS Goldcrest (AM-80), a steel-hulled commercial trawler built as MV Shawmut in 1928 by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., Quincy, Massachusetts, was acquired by the United States Navy from the Massachusetts Trawling Co. of Boston, Massachusetts, on 29 November 1940, and converted to a minesweeper. The ship was commissioned as a naval trawler at the Boston Navy Yard on 15 May 1941.