USS Bluebird (AM-72)
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Ordered | as M/V Maine |
| Laid down | 25 October 1930 |
| Launched | 7 April 1931 |
| Acquired | 13 August 1940 |
| Commissioned | 22 November 1940 |
| Decommissioned | 12 January 1945 |
| Stricken | 19 January 1945 |
| Fate | Transferred to Norway |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement | 520 tons |
| Length | 132 ft 4 in (40.34 m) |
| Beam | 24 ft (7.3 m) |
| Draught | 13 ft (4.0 m) |
| Propulsion | one Fairbanks Morse diesel engine, 550shp, one shaft |
| Speed | 10 kts |
| Complement | unknown |
| Armament | one single 3 in (76 mm) gun mount |
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USS Bluebird (AM-72) was an Albatross-class minesweeper acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War II for clearing minefields during fleet operations.
M/V Maine—a steel-hulled fishing trawler constructed in 1931 at Bath, Maine, by Bath Iron Works—was purchased by the Navy on 13 August 1940 from the Booth Fisheries Co., Boston, Massachusetts; renamed Bluebird and designated a minesweeper, AM-72, on 14 August 1940; converted to naval service at Boston, Massachusetts, by the General Ship & Engineering Works; and commissioned at the Boston Navy Yard on 22 November 1940.