USS Bunting (AMc-7)

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US flag 48 stars.svgUnited States
NameUSS Bunting
Launched1935, as SS Vagabond
Acquired22 October 1940
Commissioned6 June 1941
RenamedBunting, 6 November 1940
Stricken24 June 1942
FateSunk after collision, 3 June 1942
General characteristics
Type Coastal minesweeper
Displacement115 long tons (117 t)
Length79 ft 3 in (24.16 m)
Beam21 ft 6 in (6.55 m)
Draft9 ft 6 in (2.90 m)
Speed8.5 knots (15.7 km/h; 9.8 mph)
Complement16
Armament2 × .30 cal (7.62 mm) machine guns

USS Bunting (AMc-7) was a coastal minesweeper in the United States Navy. She was named after the bunting, a seed-eating bird intermediate in size between starlings and finches.

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Acquisition and modification

SS Vagabond, a wooden-hulled purse seiner built in 1935 at Tacoma, Washington, by the Martinac Shipbuilding Co., was acquired by the Navy from Marko Bokich, et al., on 22 October 1940. She was designated AMc-7 shortly thereafter; renamed USS Bunting on 6 November 1940; converted to a coastal minesweeper by the Campbell Machine Company at San Diego, California. She was placed in service at the Destroyer Base, San Diego, on 6 June 1941.

Assigned to San Francisco Bay duties

Assigned to the 12th Naval District, Bunting reported to her assigned base at the Section Headquarters, Treasure Island, San Francisco, California, on 19 June and spent the remainder of the year 1941 and the first five months of 1942 engaged in training officers, minesweeping, patrolling San Francisco Bay, and participating in local Army and Navy exercises.

Collision and sinking

While patrolling from Line Mile Rock to Point Diablo, Bunting collided with the patrol craft PC-569 on 3 June 1942 and sank. Her name was struck from the Navy List on 24 June 1942.

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