Name M/V Gale Acquired 1 January 1942 Length 45 m | Name USS Hawk Launched 1937 | |
Owner General Sea Foods Corp., Boston, Massachusetts Builder Bethlehem Steel, Quincy, Massachusetts Fate Requisitioned by the US Navy, 1 January 1942 | ||
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USS Hawk (AM-133) was a Hawk-class minesweeper of the United States Navy during World War II.
Built in 1937 as the steel-hulled fishing trawler MV Gale by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Co. of Quincy, Massachusetts, for the General Sea Foods Corp., Boston, Massachusetts.
She was acquired by the Navy on 1 January 1942. Conversion to a minesweeper began on 8 January 1942 at the Bethlehem Steel Co., East Boston, Massachusetts. Renamed Hawk on 21 January 1942, she completed conversion and was commissioned on 23 May 1942.
Hawk was assigned to the 1st Naval District and was based at the Boston Section Base. She performed general minesweeping duties near Boston, Massachusetts, and in mid-1943 was assigned to the Northern Ship Lane Patrol.
Hawk was decommissioned on 1 May 1944, struck from the Navy Register on 16 September 1944 and sold. Her fate is unknown.