USS Usage (AM-130)

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Career USN Jack
Laid down: 1 January 1942
Launched: 4 October 1942
Commissioned:
Reclassified: HMS Tourmaline (J 339), 1943
Returned to U.S. Navy: January 1947
Fate: Sold to Turkey
General characteristics
Class: Auk (metal-hulled fleet minesweeper)
Displacement: 890 tons
Length: 221 ft 3 in (67 m)
Beam: 32 (10 m)
Draft: 10 ft 9 in (3 m)
Speed: 18 knots (33 km/h)
Complement: 100
Armament: 1 X 3 in
2 X 40mm
2 X 20mm
2 depth charge tracks

USS Usage (AM-130) was an Auk-class 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.

Usage was laid down on 1 January 1942 at Chickasaw, Alabama, by the Gulf Shipbuilding Corp.; launched on 4 October 1942; and transferred to the United Kingdom under lend-lease on 7 June 1943.

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Usage, an Auk class minesweeper, served with the Royal Navy as Tourmaline in the Atlantic Ocean in World War II. She was returned to United States custody in January 1947, struck from the Navy list, and transferred to the Foreign Liquidation Commission for disposition. Sold to Turkey, she served with the Turkish Navy under the name Cardak until 1974.

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This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.

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Auk-class minesweeper
List of mine warfare vessels of the United States Navy