Characteristics as Mine Planter and Coast Guard vessel, particularly displacement, might differ.
USS Bastion (ACM-6) was a Chimo-class minelayer in the United States Navy during World War II.
Bastion was originally the USAMP Colonel Henry J. Hunt (MP-2) — a mine planter built in 1942 at Point Pleasant, West Virginia, by the Marietta Manufacturing Co. for the U.S. Army Mine Planter Service. She was acquired by the U.S. Navy from the U.S. Army on 4 January 1945, renamed Bastion, converted to an auxiliary minelayer and commissioned at Charleston, South Carolina 9 April 1945; Lt. Earl D. Fatkin, USNR, Commanding. The ship was transferred to the U.S. Coast Guard in 1946 and commissioned USCGC Jonquil (WAGL/WLB-330 serving until 1969.
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