History | |
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United States | |
Laid down | 4 August 1941 |
Launched | 18 November 1941 |
Commissioned | 4 February 1942 |
Decommissioned | date unknown |
Stricken | date unknown |
Fate | Sunk as a target in 1973 |
General characteristics | |
Displacement | 275 tons |
Length | 98 ft 5 in (30.00 m) |
Beam | 23 ft 7 in (7.19 m) |
Draught | 10 ft 8 in (3.25 m) |
Speed | 10.0 knots |
Complement | 17 |
Armament | two .30 cal (7.62 mm) machine guns |
the second USS Fearless (AMc-80) was an Accentor-class coastal minesweeper acquired by the U.S. Navy.
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Fearless was reclassified YDT-5 on 15 February 1943.
Fearless was sunk as a target in 1973.
The Fearless is in 80 feet of water lying on her keel 800 yards North of Great Harbour Peter Island in the British Virgin Islands.
USS Fearless may refer to one of the following ships of the United States Navy:
The Accentor-class minesweeper, sometimes called the Accentor/Acme-class minesweeper, was a small minesweeper used by the United States Navy during World War II. The Accentor-class minesweeper was designed for the sweeping of mines in harbors, bays, and other littoral waters.
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This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships .