Category:USS Sandpiper (AMCU-38)
Ship
edit- Type: LCI-351 class Landing Craft Infantry (Large), later converted to AMCU-7 class minesweeper
- Built by: Consolidated Steel Corp., Orange, TX
- Yard No: 1302
- Keel laid: 1944.04.29
- Launched: 1944.05.27
- Completed: 1944.06.19
- Length over all: 158 ft 5.5 in
- Beam: 23 ft 3 in
- GT:
- DWT:
- www.shipbuildinghistory.com
- www.navsource.org
- www.history.navy.mil
History
edit- 1943 Named USS LCI(L)-1008; Flag: United States
- 1946.08 Decommissioned
- 1952.03 Renamed USS Sandpiper (AMCU-38); Flag: United States
- Converted to coastal minesweeper at Charleston Naval Shipyard from 1953.04 to 1953.11
- 1955.02 Renamed USS Sandpiper (MHC-38); Flag: United States
- 1960 Removed from service
- 1960.09 Sold to Miami Power Squadron, Inc, Miami Beach
- 1974 last known documentation
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