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| | Chaffinch |
 | | Chaffinch (AM-81) was built in 1928 by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., Quincy, Mass., as Trimont; purchased by the Navy 29 November 1940; and commissioned 16 July 1941, Lieutenant Edward Fluhr, USNR, in command. |
 | | For the next year and a half, alert to the mounting German submarine menace, she swept for mines and patrolled waters off New York and New London. |
 | | Continuing her essential support to the movement both of coastwise convoys, and those bound for distant ports, Chaffinch again served at New York harbor until 1 August 1945, when she cleared for Charleston, S.C. There she was decommissioned 12 December 1945, and transferred to the Maritime Commission 23 September 1946. |
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