USS Brant (AM-24)
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 United States
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| Name: | USS Brant |
| Builder: | Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Chester, Pennsylvania |
| Cost: | $601,756 (hull & machinery) |
| Launched: | 30 May 1918 |
| Commissioned: | 5 September 1918, as Minesweeper No.24 |
| Decommissioned: | 19 December 1945 |
| Reclassified: |
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| Honours and awards: |
3 battle stars (World War II) |
| Fate: | Most likely scrapped |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Lapwing-class minesweeper |
| Displacement: | 950 long tons (965 t) |
| Length: | 187 ft 10 in (57.25 m) |
| Beam: | 35 ft 6 in (10.82 m) |
| Draft: | 10 ft 4 in (3.15 m) |
| Speed: | 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
| Complement: | 78 |
| Armament: | 2 × 3 in (76 mm) guns |
USS Brant (AM-24) was a Lapwing-class minesweeper in the United States Navy during World War II. She was named by the U.S. Navy for the brant, a small goose.
Brant was launched 30 May 1918 by Sun Shipbuilding Co., Chester, Pennsylvania; sponsored by Miss Lois Graham; commissioned 5 September 1918, Lieutenant J. W. Stoakley in command; and reported to the Minesweeping Force, 5th Naval District, to sweep convoy courses off the coast of Virginia.
She served as a lightship off the Virginia coast in December 1918. In May 1919 she was placed under Director of Tugs, 5th Naval District, for towing and harbor operations at Norfolk.
On 17 September 1919 Brant reported to Train, Pacific Fleet, at San Diego. She remained on the west coast with the fleet until June 1941, serving as a minesweeper, target vessel, and fleet tug, except for short periodic moves to the east coast, the Caribbean, Panama Canal area, and the Hawaiian Islands on fleet concentrations and exercises.
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