Reedbird (AMc-30) was a coastal minesweeper. The Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships entry dated 23 September 2005 heads her as the Reedbird class and calls the name a bobolink, the bird. It gives a full-load displacement of 223 tons, a length of 87 feet 5 inches, a beam of 23 feet 10 inches, a draft of 10 feet 3 inches, a speed of 10 knots, a complement of 12, and an armament of two machine guns. She was the first Reedbird. She had been the wooden purse seiner Fearless, built in 1935 by Al Larson at Terminal Island, California. DANFS says the Navy bought her from Tony Marincovich and others on 18 November 1940, renamed her Reedbird (AMc-30) on 30 December 1940, had her converted by the Campbell Machine Company at San Diego, and placed her in service on 29 April 1941. NavSource says she was built by the Al Larson Boat Shop for Paul Biazevich and Anthony Marincovich of San Pedro, purchased by the Maritime Commission on 16 November 1940, and transferred to the Navy on 18 November 1940. NavSource's armament line says two .50-caliber machine guns, and its complement line says 17, against the DANFS complement of 12.
She left San Diego on 14 May 1941 and steamed west with the oiler Tippecanoe (AO-21). She reported to the Fourteenth Naval District on 28 May. DANFS says she carried acoustic, magnetic, and O-type sweep gear and operated in Hawaiian waters throughout the war. She is on the Navy's list of ships present on 7 December 1941. The DANFS entry does not say where she lay that morning, whether she was at sea or alongside, or whether she fired or was hit.
Ordered inactivated, she returned to San Diego, was stripped, and was placed out of service on 14 January 1946. Her name was struck from the Navy list on 7 February 1946. On 8 November 1946 she was delivered to the Maritime Commission for disposal. NavSource agrees on the out-of-service day, the strike, and the 8 November delivery, and says she was returned to her owners. It also says the Naval Vessel Register of 1 January 1949 lists the transfer to the War Shipping Administration as October 1946. NavSource then carries her as the fishing boat Fearless, registered in 1948 to Tony Marinkovich of San Pedro, the surname spelled with a k; acquired in 1950 by the French Sardine Company of California at Terminal Island and renamed Star-Kist; and in 1954 operating out of Iquique, Chile, as the Chilean fishing boat Coloradol, fate unknown. Neither DANFS nor NavSource names an officer in charge. None is entered here.
A note on sources. The Hawaiian service and the silence about 7 December are the 2005 DANFS entry. The purchase path, the .50-caliber guns, the complement of 17, the October 1946 register date, and the fishing-boat names after disposal are NavSource, and they do not all match DANFS. No action report for 7 December was on the Navy's ships-present page. No photograph was identified as this ship.