USS Fierce (AM-97)

USS Fierce (AM-97)
Career (United States)
Name: USS Fierce
Builder: Nashville Bridge Company, Nashville, Tennessee
Laid down: 18 October 1941
Launched: 5 March 1942
Commissioned: 12 October 1942
Renamed: USS PC-1601, 1 June 1944
Renamed: USS PCC-1601, 20 August 1945
Decommissioned: December 1945
Honors and
awards:		 2 battle stars (World War II)
Fate: Transferred to the Maritime Commission, 15 June 1948
General characteristics
Class and type: Adroit-class minesweeper
Displacement: 295 long tons (300 t)
Length: 173 ft 8 in (52.93 m)
Beam: 23 ft (7.0 m)
Draft: 11 ft 7 in (3.53 m)
Propulsion: 2 × 1,440 bhp (1,074 kW) Busch-Sulzer BS 539 diesel engines (Serial Nos. BS1143 & BS1144)
Farrel-Birmingham single reduction gear
2 shafts
Speed: 16.8 knots (31.1 km/h)
Complement: 65
Armament: • 1 × 3"/50 caliber gun
• 1 × 40 mm gun

USS Fierce (AM-97) was an Adroit-class minesweeper of the United States Navy. Laid down on 18 October 1941 by the Nashville Bridge Co., Nashville, Tennessee; launched on 5 March 1942, and commissioned on 12 October 1942. The ship was reclassified as a submarine chaser, PC-1601 on 1 June 1944, and reclassified as a control submarine chaser PCC-1601 on 20 August 1945.

PC-1601 was decommissioned in December 1945 at San Francisco, California and transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal on 15 June 1948. Sold to John K. Seaborn and converted into a twin-engined tug and named Seaborn II. Fate unknown. PCC-1601 earned two battle stars for World War II military action.

External links

  • Photo gallery of USS Fierce (AM-97)/PC-1601/PCC-1601 at NavSource Naval History
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