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USS Limpkin (AMc-48) was an ''Accentor''-class coastal minesweeper acquired by the U.S. Navy for clearing coastal minefields. The first ship to be named ''Limpkin'' by the Navy, ''AMc-48'' was laid down 24 February 1941 by Greenport Basin and Construction Company, Long Island, New York; launched 5 April 1941; sponsored by Miss Elsie Thornhill; and placed in service 8 August 1941. == World War II service == Following shakedown off Yorktown, Virginia, the new coastal minesweeper reported to the 3rd Naval District, New York City, 9 August. After the United States entered World War II. ''Limpkin'' and her sister-minesweepers assumed responsibility for keeping crucial New York Harbor clear. For 2 years the ship swept shipping channels that extended fingerlike from Manhattan to open water, permitting unprecedented amounts of war material to be shipped to the European theater to support the Allied war effort.
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