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{{short description|Minesweeper of the United States Navy}}
{{other ships|USS Bunting}}

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|Ship type= [[Coastal minesweeper]] 
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'''USS ''Bunting'' (AMc-7)''' was a coastal [[Minesweeper (ship)|minesweeper]] in the [[United States Navy]]. She was named after the [[bunting (bird)|bunting]], a seed-eating bird intermediate in size between [[starling]]s and [[finch]]es.

== Acquisition and modification ==
SS ''Vagabond'', a wooden-hulled [[purse seiner]] built in 1935 at [[Tacoma, Washington]], by the Martinac Shipbuilding Co., was acquired by the Navy from Marko Bokich, et al., on 22 October 1940. She was designated '''AMc-7''' shortly thereafter; renamed USS ''Bunting'' on 6 November 1940; converted to a coastal minesweeper by the [[Campbell Machine Company]] at [[San Diego]], California. She was placed in service at the Destroyer Base, San Diego, on 6 June 1941.

== Assigned to San Francisco Bay duties ==
Assigned to the 12th Naval District, ''Bunting'' reported to her assigned base at the Section Headquarters, [[Treasure Island (California)|Treasure Island]], [[San Francisco]], California, on 19 June and spent the remainder of the year 1941 and the first five months of 1942 engaged in training officers, minesweeping, patrolling [[San Francisco Bay]], and participating in local Army and Navy exercises.

== Collision and sinking ==
While patrolling from [[Line Mile Rock]] to [[Point Diablo]], ''Bunting'' collided with the patrol craft {{USS|PC-569||2}} on 3 June 1942 and sank. Her name was struck from the [[Naval Vessel Register|Navy List]] on 24 June 1942.

== References ==
*{{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/b10/bunting-i.htm}}

==External links==
* {{navsource|11/03007|USS Bunting}}
* [http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq82-1.htm Casualties, Navy and Coast Guard Ships, WW II] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130102121523/http://www.history.navy.mil/FAQs/faq82-1.htm |date=2 January 2013 }}
* [http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ships/AMc/AMc-7_Bunting.html Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1940-1945 - AMc-7 USS ''Bunting'']
* [http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ships/ships-dm.html Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1940-1945]

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[[Category:Minesweepers of the United States Navy]]
[[Category:Ships built in Tacoma, Washington]]
[[Category:1935 ships]]
[[Category:World War II minesweepers of the United States]]
[[Category:World War II shipwrecks in the Pacific Ocean]]
[[Category:Shipwrecks of the California coast]]
[[Category:Ships sunk in collisions]]
[[Category:Maritime incidents in June 1942]]