USS Trefoil (IX-149)

Midnight in March 1944
History
United States
Name	USS Midnight
Builder	Barrett, Hilp & Belair, San Francisco, California
Laid down	1944
Acquired	5 March 1944
In service	9 March 1944
Out of service	28 May 1948
Renamed	Trefoil, 10 June 1944
Stricken	22 December 1948
Fate	Sold, 1948
General characteristics
Class and type	Trefoil-class cargo barge
Displacement	10,960 long tons (11,136 t)
Length	366 ft 4 in (111.66 m)
Beam	54 ft (16 m)
Propulsion	None
Speed	Not self-propelled
Complement	54 officers and men
Armament	1 × 40 mm AA gun 4 × single 20 mm AA guns

USS Trefoil (IX-149), the lead ship of her class of concrete-hulled cargo barge, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be given that name. Her keel was laid down in 1944 under a Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1329) by the Barrett, Hilp & Belair Shipyard in San Francisco, California (Type B7-D1). She was acquired by the Navy on 5 March 1944 as Midnight (the second ship of that name), designated unclassified miscellaneous vessel IX-149, and placed in service on 9 March 1944 with Lieutenant Neal King, USNR, in charge.