USS Goldcrest (AM-80)

USS Goldcrest (AM-80)

The USS Goldcrest (AM-80), a steel commercial trawler built as MV Shawmut in 1928 by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., Quincy, Massachusetts, was acquired by the U.S. Navy from the Massachusetts Trawling Co. of Boston, Massachusetts ; and commissioned at the Boston Navy Yard 15 May 1941, Lt. Conrad H. Koopman in command.

World War II East Coast Operations

Following shakedown training at Mine Warfare School, Yorktown, Virginia, USS Goldcrest arrived New York 10 August 1942 to base at Staten Island while serving as an inshore patrol and NROTC cadet school ship under the 3rd Naval District. On 24 August, she became flagship of Division 1 of the Inshore Patrol Force. In Sandy Hook Bay, New Jersey, while on patrol 11 March 1943, she sank by gunfire three mines that had drifted from defensive minefields. On 29 March, she assisted a damaged merchantman off Staten Island. Her patrol and school ship duties continued until 5 August 1945 when she transferred to Charleston, South Carolina, for minesweeping duty.

End-of-War Decommissioning

USS Goldcrest decommissioned 12 December 1945 and was sold 20 June 1946 to her former owner.

References

*DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/g6/goldcrest-i.htm

External links

* [http://www.navsource.org/archives/11/02080.htm NavSource Online: Mine Warfare Vessel Photo Archive - Goldcrest (AM 80)]
* [http://www.ibiblio.net/hyperwar/USN/ships/ships-dm.html Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1940-1945 Minecraft]
* [http://www.hazegray.org/danfs/mine/ DANFS Online: Mine Warfare Vessels]


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