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History
USS ChickadeeUnited States
NameUSS Chickadee
Namesakechickadee
BuilderDefoe Shipbuilding Company, Bay City, Michigan
Laid down1942
Launched20 July 1942
Commissioned9 November 1943
Decommissioned15 May 1946
ReclassifiedMSF-59, 7 February 1965
Honours and
awards
  • 2 battle stars (World War II)
  • American Campaign Medal
  • European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal (2)
  • World War II Victory Medal
FateTransferred to Uruguay, 18 August 1966
Stricken1 August 1976
History
USS ChickadeeUruguay
NameROU Comandante Pedro Campbell
Acquired18 August 1966
Decommissioned18 March 2003
Stricken12 December 2003
FateScrapped, 2005
General characteristics
Class and typeAuk-class minesweeper
Displacement890 long tons (904 t)
Length221 ft 3 in (67.44 m)
Beam32 ft (9.8 m)
Draft10 ft 9 in (3.28 m)
Speed18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Complement100 officers and enlisted
Armament
  • 1 × 3"/50 caliber gun
  • 2 × 40 mm guns
  • 2 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannons
  • 2 × depth charge tracks

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.

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