USS Kite (AM-75)

USS Kite (AM-75)

The USS "Kite" (AM-75) was built as a: Kite class minesweeper: Laid down 18 June 1928 as the fishing trawler M/V Holy Cross by the Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, for F. J. O'Hara and Sons, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts; Launched, 24 November 1928; Delivered 27 November 1928; Renamed Kite 14 August 1940; Acquired by the U.S. Navy, 11 September 1940; Conversion to a Minesweeper began 12 September 1940 by the Bethlehem Steel Co., East Boston, Massachusetts; Commissioned USS Kite (AM 75), 3 March 1941; Conversion completed in April 1941.

"Kite" cleared Boston, Massachusetts, 27 March 1941; and, after training exercises with the mine warfare school Yorktown, Virginia, she operated with the Support Force out of Norfolk, Virginia. Five months later she sailed for Newfoundland arriving at Argentia on 31 August for minesweeping operations in the North Atlantic. From August 1941 to 3 May 1944, "Kite" swept sea lanes in frigid Newfoundland waters.

Clearing Argentia, "Kite" arrived Boston, Massachusetts, 7 May and was: Decommissioned, 14 August 1944 at Quincy, Massachusetts; Struck from the Naval Register 22 August 1944; Transferred to the War Shipping Administration, 2 March 1945 and sold. Fate unknown.

References

*DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/k4/kite-i.htm

External links

* [http://www.navsource.org/archives/11/02075.htm NavSource Online: Mine Warfare Vessel Photo Archive - Kite (AM 75)]


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