USS_Harrier_(AM-366)

USS <i>Harrier</i> (AM-366)

USS Harrier (AM-366)

Minesweeper of the United States Navy

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.

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

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