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USS Fearless (AMc 80)

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Laid down
  
4 August 1941

Decommissioned
  
date unknown

Displacement
  
275 tons

Launched
  
18 November 1941

Weight
  
279.4 tons

Commissioned
  
4 February 1942

Struck
  
date unknown

Construction started
  
4 August 1941

Length
  
30 m

Draft
  
3.25 m

Fate
  
sunk as a target in 1973

the second USS Fearless (AMc-80) was an Accentor-class coastal minesweeper acquired by the U.S. Navy.

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World War II service

No data available.

Reclassified as a dive tender

Fearless was reclassified YDT-5 on 15 February 1943.

Deactivation

Fearless was sunk as a target in 1973.

The Fearless is in 80 feet of water lying on her keel 800 yards North of Great Harbour Peter Island in the British Virgin Islands.

References

USS Fearless (AMc-80) Wikipedia