USS Trefoil (IX-149)
Midnight in March 1944 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | USS Midnight |
| Builder | Barrett, Hilp & Belair, San Francisco, California |
| Laid down | 1944 |
| Acquired | 5 March 1944 |
| In service | 9 March 1944 |
| Out of service | 28 May 1948 |
| Renamed | Trefoil, 10 June 1944 |
| Stricken | 22 December 1948 |
| Fate | Sold, 1948 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Trefoil-class cargo barge |
| Displacement | 10,960 long tons (11,136 t) |
| Length | 366 ft 4 in (111.66 m) |
| Beam | 54 ft (16 m) |
| Propulsion | None |
| Speed | Not self-propelled |
| Complement | 54 officers and men |
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USS Trefoil (IX-149), the lead ship of her class of concrete-hulled cargo barge, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be given that name. Her keel was laid down in 1944 under a Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1329) by the Barrett, Hilp & Belair Shipyard in San Francisco, California (Type B7-D1). She was acquired by the Navy on 5 March 1944 as Midnight (the second ship of that name), designated unclassified miscellaneous vessel IX-149, and placed in service on 9 March 1944 with Lieutenant Neal King, USNR, in charge.