USS Chickadee
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | USS Chickadee |
| Namesake | chickadee |
| Builder | Defoe Shipbuilding Company, Bay City, Michigan |
| Laid down | 1942 |
| Launched | 20 July 1942 |
| Commissioned | 9 November 1943 |
| Decommissioned | 15 May 1946 |
| Reclassified | MSF-59, 7 February 1965 |
| Honours & awards | |
| Fate | Transferred to Uruguay, 18 August 1966 |
| Stricken | 1 August 1976 |
| History | |
| Uruguay | |
| Name | ROU Comandante Pedro Campbell |
| Acquired | 18 August 1966 |
| Decommissioned | 18 March 2003 |
| Stricken | 12 December 2003 |
| Fate | Scrapped, 2005 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Auk-class minesweeper |
| Displacement | 890 long tons (904 t) |
| Length | 221 ft 3 in (67.44 m) |
| Beam | 32 ft (9.8 m) |
| Draft | 10 ft 9 in (3.28 m) |
| Speed | 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph) |
| Complement | 100 officers and enlisted |
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USS Chickadee (AM-59) was an Auk-class minesweeper of the United States Navy, named after the Chickadee, a family of small passerine birds which appear in North America and Africa.
Chickadee was launched on 20 July 1942 at the Defoe Shipbuilding Company in Bay City, Michigan; sponsored by Mrs. George Buchanan Coale (Mary Woolfolk Rule Coale). She was commissioned on 9 November 1942 and reported to the Atlantic Fleet.