| Career | |
|---|---|
| Name: | USS Broadbill |
| Builder: | Defoe Shipbuilding Company, Bay City, Michigan |
| Laid down: | 1942 |
| Launched: | 21 May 1942 |
| Commissioned: | 21 July 1943 |
| Decommissioned: | 3 June 1946 |
| Recommissioned: | 19 March 1952 |
| Decommissioned: | 24 January 1954 |
| Reclassified: | MSF-58, 7 February 1965 |
| Struck: | 1 July 1972 |
| Honours and awards: |
2 battle stars (World War II) |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap, 1 December 1973 |
| 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 |
| Armament: | • 1 × 3"/50 caliber gun • 2 × 40 mm guns • 2 × 20 mm guns • 2 × depth charge tracks |
USS Broadbill (AM-58), was an Auk-class minesweeper of the United States Navy, named after the Broadbill, a family of small passerine bird species found in tropical southeast Asia and Africa. Broadbill was launched on 21 May 1942 at the Defoe Shipbuilding Company in Bay City, Michigan, sponsored by Mrs. A. Loring Swasey, wife of Captain Swasey. She was commissioned on 13 October 1942, with Lieutenant Commander J. B. Cleland, Jr., in command.