USS Harrier (AM-366)

History
United States
Name	USS Harrier
Builder	Willamette Iron and Steel Works
Laid down	11 August 1943
Launched	7 June 1944
Commissioned	31 August 1945
Decommissioned	28 March 1946
Stricken	1 December 1959
Fate	Sold 1964
General characteristics
Class and type	Admirable-class minesweeper
Displacement	945 tons
Length	184 ft 6 in (56.24 m)
Beam	33 ft (10 m)
Draft	9 ft 9 in (2.97 m)
Installed power	1,710 shp
Propulsion	2 × Busch Sulzer 539 diesel engines, 855 shp each Farrel-Birmingham single reduction gear 2 shafts
Speed	14.8 knots (27.4 km/h)
Complement	104
Armament	1 × 3"/50 caliber gun DP 2 × twin Bofors 40 mm guns 6 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannon 1 × Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar 4 × Depth charge projectors (K-guns) 2 × depth charge racks
Service record
Part of:	US Pacific Fleet (1945-1946) Atlantic Reserve Fleet (1946-1959)

USS Harrier (AM-366) was an Admirable-class minesweeper built for the United States Navy. Laid down on 11 August 1943 by the Willamette Iron and Steel Works, Portland, Oregon, launched 7 June 1944, commissioned as USS Harrier (AM-366), 31 October 1945.

History

After shakedown and exercises along the Oregon coast, Harrier put into San Diego, California, 5 January 1946. She decommissioned, 28 March 1946 at San Diego, California. Struck from the Naval Register, 1 December 1959. Transferred to the Maritime Commission, sold in 1964 and was renamed Sea Scope. The ship was reclassified for oceanographic research and was equipped with a variety of underwater tools including sonar, photographic equipment, magnetic and seabed exploration equipment. It is reported to have been used, circa 1970, to reconnoiter the site of the Soviet K-129 sub prior to the CIA project Azorian/Glomar Explorer to recover part of that sub in 1974.[1] It was renamed Atlantic Coast in 1998.[2]

References

1. Reed, Craig; Red November; William Marrow publisher 2010
2. Silverstone, Paul (2009). The Navy of the Nuclear Age, 1947-2007. New York: Routledge. p. 147. ISBN 978-0-203-87773-9.

 This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.

External links

• NavSource Online: Mine Warfare Vessel Photo Archive - Harrier (AM 366)