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Fulmar (AMc 46)

Call sign:
Nan - Item - Love - Zebra

Accentor Class Coastal Minesweeper:

Laid down 21 December 1940 by the Greenport Basin and Construction Co., Greenport, Long Island, NY

Launched 25 February 1941

Commissioned USS Fulmar (AMc 46), 25 June 1941

Decommissioned 4 January 1946 at Charleston, SC

Struck from the Naval Register 21 January 1946

Transferred to the Maritime Commission 16 September 1946

Acquired in 1948 by Frank P. Tower of Morgan City, LA for use as a fishing boat and renamed Grace & George

Acquired in 1949 by Louisiana Bunkers, Inc. of Patterson, LA

Burned 9 July 1954 at the John Santos Carinhas wharf on the Calcasies River at Cameron, LA.

Specifications:

Displacement 185 t.

Length 97' 1"

Beam 22'

Draft 9'

Speed 10 kts.

Complement 17

Armament: One .50 cal. machine gun

Propulsion: One 500shp General Motors 8-268A diesel engine, one shaft.

Click on thumbnail for full size image	Size	Image Description		Source
	64k	Namesake: *Fulmar* - An arctic sea bird found only beyond the 100-fathom curve		Tommy Trampp

Commanding Officers
01	LTJG Allen Russell, USNR	25 June 1941 - April 1942
02	LT Charles W. Logan, USNR	April 1942 - September 1943
03	LT Gustave J. Blasi, USNR	September 1943 - March 1944
04	LT Frederick B. Gugle, USNR	March 1944 - February 1945
05	LT Jack L. Benson, USNR	February 1945 - June 1945
06	LT William G. Crawford, USNR	June 1945 - 4 January 1946

Courtesy Joe Radigan

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DANFS history entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway web site

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