USS Waxbill (AMc-15)

USS Waxbill (AMc-15) was built in 1936 as the wooden-hulled purse seiner Leslie J. Fulton by F. L. Fulton, Antioch, California; Purchased by the U.S. Navy, 19 November 1940 for eventual conversion to a Coastal Minesweeper; Commissioned as USS AMc-15, 26 November 1940; Named Waxbill 27 November 1940; Decommissioned, 20 January 1941 and entered General Engineering and Drydock Co., Alameda, California, for conversion to a Coastal Minesweeper; Recommissioned and placed in service, 19 February 1941.

World War II Pacific Ocean Operations

Not yet fully equipped or manned, USS Waxbill operated in the 12th Naval District's waters, training naval reservists through the end of 1940. Attached to the inshore patrol forces of the district as of 1 January 1941, USS Waxbill entered the General Engineering and Drydock Co. yard at Alameda, California, on 20 January, for conversion to a coastal minesweeper (AMc). While at Alameda, the ship was decommissioned and simultaneously placed in service on 19 February 1941. USS Waxbill operated locally in the 12th Naval District attached, successively, to Patrol Force, Local Defense Forces and the Mine Force for the district until she was assigned to the Western Sea Frontier Force in August 1942.

Decommissioning

Reassigned to local defense forces of the district on 12 March 1943, she was eventually taken out of service on 12 September 1944 and was struck from the Navy list on 14 October 1944. Transferred to the Maritime Commission's War Shipping Administration on 6 January 1945, the erstwhile minecraft was simultaneously sold to her original owner, F. L. Pulton.

References

ee also

* List of United States Navy ships
* World War II
* Patrol boat
* Minelayer
* minesweeper
* Minesweeping

External links

* [http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/#Anchor-Editoria-14954 Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]
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