Kite-class minesweeper

Class overview
Builders:	Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine
Operators:	United States
In commission:	1941-1944
Completed:	2
General characteristics
Type:	Minesweeper
Displacement:	410 long tons (417 t)
Length:	123 ft 10 in (37.74 m)
Beam:	23 ft (7.0 m)
Draft:	12 ft (3.7 m)
Propulsion:	1 × 400 shp (298 kW) Fairbanks-Morse diesel engine 1 × shaft
Speed:	10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Armament:	1 × 3"/50 caliber gun 2 × .30 cal. machine guns

The Kite-class minesweepers were a class of two ships operated by the United States Navy during World War II.

Both ships were built as fishing trawlers in 1928 by the Bath Iron Works Corporation of Bath, Maine, for F. J. O'Hara and Sons, Inc. of Boston, Massachusetts.

The ships were acquired by the U.S. Navy in late 1940, and converted to minesweepers at Bethlehem Steel Co. of East Boston, Massachusetts, and commissioned in early 1941. Both were disposed of towards the end of the war.

Ships

• USS Kite (AM-75)
• USS Linnet (AM-76)

References

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