| Career | |
|---|---|
| Name: | USS Albatross |
| Builder: | Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine |
| Laid down: | 25 October 1930 |
| Launched: | 19 March 1931 as M/V Illinois |
| Acquired: | by the US Navy, 9 August 1940 |
| Commissioned: | 8 November 1940 |
| Decommissioned: | 11 September 1944 |
| Renamed: | USS Albatross, 14 August 1940 |
| Reclassified: | IX-171 (Unclassified Miscellaneous Auxiliary), 1 June 1944 |
| Struck: | 23 September 1944 |
| Fate: | Transferred to the Maritime Commission, 15 November 1944 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Albatross-class minesweeper |
| Displacement: | 510 long tons (518 t) |
| Length: | 147 ft 5 in (44.93 m) |
| Beam: | 25 ft (7.6 m) |
| Draft: | 12 ft (3.7 m) |
| Propulsion: | Fairbanks-Morse diesel engine, 550 shp (410 kW) 1 shaft |
| Speed: | 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
| Armament: | 1 × 3"/50 caliber gun mount |
USS Albatross (AM-71) was an Albatross-class minesweeper of the United States Navy during World War II.
Originally laid down on 25 October 1930 as the steel-hulled fishing trawler M/V Illinois by the Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, she was launched on 19 March 1931 and delivered on 30 March 1931 to the Booth Fisheries Company, Boston, Massachusetts.
Acquired by the U.S. Navy on 9 August 1940 and renamed Albatross on 14 August 1940, conversion to a minesweeper began on 6 September 1940 by the General Ship and Engine Works, East Boston, Massachusetts. The ship was commissioned as USS Albatross (AM 71) on 8 November 1940 at the Boston Navy Yard. Conversion was completed on 8 November 1941. She was reclassified as an Unclassified Miscellaneous Auxiliary, IX-171, 1 June 1944.