USS Chickadee

History
United States
Name	USS Chickadee
Namesake	chickadee
Builder	Defoe Shipbuilding Company, Bay City, Michigan
Laid down	1942
Launched	20 July 1942
Commissioned	9 November 1943
Decommissioned	15 May 1946
Reclassified	MSF-59, 7 February 1965
Honours and; awards	2 battle stars (World War II); American Campaign Medal; European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal (2); World War II Victory Medal;
Fate	Transferred to Uruguay, 18 August 1966
Stricken	1 August 1976
History
Uruguay
Name	ROU Comandante Pedro Campbell
Acquired	18 August 1966
Decommissioned	18 March 2003
Stricken	12 December 2003
Fate	Scrapped, 2005
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 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannons; 2 × depth charge tracks;

USS Chickadee (AM-59) was an Auk-class minesweeper of the United States Navy, named after the chickadee, the name given to several small passerine birds which appear in North America.

Chickadee was launched on 20 July 1942 at the Defoe Shipbuilding Company in Bay City, Michigan; sponsored by Mrs. George Buchanan Coale (Mary Woolfolk Rule Coale). She was commissioned on 9 November 1942 and reported to the Atlantic Fleet.