Built in 1937 as the steel-hulled fishing trawler MV Gale by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Co. of Quincy, Massachusetts, for the General Sea Foods Corp., Boston, Massachusetts. She was acquired by the Navy on 1 January 1942. Conversion to a minesweeper began on 8 January 1942 at the Bethlehem Steel Co., East Boston, Massachusetts. Renamed Hawk on 21 January 1942, she completed conversion and was commissioned on 23 May 1942. Hawk was decommissioned on 1 May 1944, struck from the Navy Register on 16 September 1944 and sold. Her fate is unknown.
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