- USS Constant (AM-86)
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For other ships of the same name, see USS Constant.
Career (United States) 
Name: USS Constant Builder: Commercial Iron Works, Portland, Oregon Laid down: 21 February 1942 Launched: 9 May 1942 Commissioned: 21 September 1942 Renamed: USS PC-1590, 1 June 1944 Decommissioned: 19 June 1946 Recommissioned: 20 March 1951 Decommissioned: 22 October 1954 Fate: Sunk as a target ship General characteristics Class and type: Adroit-class minesweeper Displacement: 275 long tons (279 t) Length: 173 ft 8 in (52.93 m) Beam: 23 ft (7.0 m) Draft: 7 ft 7 in (2.31 m) Propulsion: 2 × 1,770 bhp (1,320 kW) Cooper Bessemer GNB8 diesel engines (Serial No. 1978 & 1979)
2 shaftsSpeed: 18 knots (33 km/h) Complement: 65 Armament: • 1 × 3"/50 caliber gun
• 1 × 40 mm gunUSS Constant (AM-86) was an Adroit-class minesweeper of the United States Navy. Laid down on 21 February 1942 by the Commercial Iron Works, Portland, Oregon, and launched on 9 May 1942, the ship was commissioned on 21 September 1942.
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World War II Pacific Theatre operations
From 20 December 1942 to 4 March 1943 Constant escorted convoys between San Francisco, California, and Pearl Harbor. She sailed from Pearl Harbor 8 March for Espiritu Santo, arriving 25 March for local escort duty, operating from Espiritu Santo and Noumea in support of the Guadalcanal operation.
On 3 September 1943 she arrived at Tulagi and remained in the Solomons on inter-island escort and minesweeping duty with occasional convoy voyages to Nouméa and Espiritu Santo until 3 April 1944 when she steamed to Auckland, New Zealand for a brief overhaul. She returned to Port Purvis in the Solomons 13 May.
Reclassified as a submarine chaser
On 1 June 1944 her name was canceled and she was reclassified as a submarine chaser PC-1590. She continued her service at Espiritu Santo, Nouméa, Samoa and Tongatapu until 6 May 1946.
Post-war activity
She then returned to Pearl Harbor, where she was decommissioned 19 June 1946. Assigned to the 14th Naval District for Naval Reserve training 28 October 1946, PC-1590 was placed in commission in reserve 5 May 1950, and in full commission from 20 March 1951 until decommissioned 22 October 1954. She was sunk as a target.
References
- This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
External links
- Photo gallery of USS Constant at NavSource Naval History
Categories:- Adroit class minesweepers
- Ships built in Oregon
- 1942 ships
- World War II minesweepers of the United States
- World War II patrol vessels of the United States
- Ships sunk as targets
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