USS Assertive (AMc-65)

USS Assertive (AMc-65)

For other ships of the same name, see USS Assertive.

Career (US)
Laid down:	5 April 1941
Launched:	19 November 1941
In service:	7 March 1942
Out of service:	30 November 1945
Struck:	19 December 1945
Fate:	sold to private buyer
General characteristics
Displacement:	195 tons
Length:	97 ft 1 in (29.59 m)
Beam:	22 ft 0 in (6.71 m)
Draught:	8½' (mean) (f.)
Speed:	10.0 knots
Complement:	19
Armament:	two .30 cal. machine guns

USS Assertive (AMc-65) was an Accentor-class coastal minesweeper acquired by the U.S. Navy for the dangerous task of removing mines from minefields laid in the water to prevent ships from passing.

The still unnamed wooden-hulled coastal minesweeper AMc-65 was laid down on 5 April 1941 at South Bristol, Maine, by the Bristol Yacht Building Co.; named Avenge (AMc-65) on 17 May 1941; renamed Assertive on 23 May 1941 when the name Avenge was reassigned to AMc-66; launched on 19 November 1941; sponsored by Mrs. Harvey Gamage of Bristol, Maine, the wife of a partner in the Bristol Yacht Building Co.; delivered to the Navy at the Boston Navy Yard on 19 February 1942; and placed in service there on 7 March 1942.