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Quastinet
T1-M-A2
Mettawee Class Gasoline Tanker:
 "Bruch", ex. "Seagull", ex. "Quastinet (AG-39)".
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 "Bruch", ex. "Seagull", ex. "Quastinet (AG-39)".
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 "Bruch", ex. "Seagull", ex. "Quastinet (AG-39)".
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QUASTINET, T1-M-A2
Built by East Coast Shipyards Inc., Bayonne, New Jersey.  Yardnumber 21. USMC Nr. 1802.
Keel laid 7-06-1944. Launched 30-07-1944. Completed 30-09-1944.
Gr. 1220 t., Net. 856 t., Dw. 1475 t.  
L.o.a. 68,68 m., Br. 11,39 m., Dr. 4,06 m. Lloyds Register (IMO) or ID nr. 5276282.
Engine: 5 cyl 2SA 405 x 520 oil engine, manufactured by Fairbanks, Morse & Company, Beloit, Wisconsin. 790 B.h.p., 589 kW.
Speed 10 knots. 12 Tanks. Derrick: 1 x 3 t. Call sign: NHWF.  
History:
1943 - Laid down, as QUASTINET, 7 June 1944, as a Maritime Commission type (T1-M-A2) tanker hull, under Maritime Commission (MC hull 1802) contract at East Coast Shipyards Inc., Bayonne, N.J.
1944 - QUASTINET Completed and acquired by the US Navy, 28 October 1944.
1944 - QUASTINET (AOG-39) Commissioned, 6 November 1944.
1945 - QUASTINET (AOG-39) Assigned to Service Force, Atlantic, 28 January 1945.
1945 - QUASTINET (AOG-39) Reassigned to the 12th Naval District at San Francisco.
1946 - QUASTINET (AOG-39) Decommissioned, 16 April 1946.
1946 - QUASTINET Struck from the Naval Register, 21 May 1946
1946 - QUASTINET Returned to the War Shipping Administration, 9 September 1946, for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benecia, CA..
1947 - QUASTINET Sold to Sea Bird Tankers Inc., 19 August 1947, renamed as MV Seagull.
1976 - SEAGULL Sold to Compania Espanola de Petroleos Soc. Anon., Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, renamed as MV Bruch.
1976 - BRUCH Final Disposition, 1976, sold for scrapping.
CASUALTY REPORTS.
Reported Seagull lengthened in 1959.
Reported Bruch sold to shipbreakers in Spain. Arrived Huelva oct 1976 to be broken up.

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