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Robin (AT[O] 140)



Call sign:
Nan - Dog - Sugar - Love

ex-AT-140
ex- AM-3
ex-Minesweeper No. 3

Lapwing Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 14 March 1918 by the Todd Shipyard Corp., New York, NY; Launched, 17 June 1918; Commissioned USS Robin (Minesweeper No. 3), 29 August 1918; Designated AM-3, 17 July 1920; Reclassified as an Ocean Tug AT-140, 1 June 1942; Reclassified an Ocean Tug (Old), AT(O)-140, 13 April 1944; Decommissioned, 9 November 1945 at Long Beach, CA; Struck from the Navy Register 28 November 1945. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 1,009 t.; Length 187' 10"; Beam 35' 6"; Draft 10' 4"; Speed 14 kts; Complement 78; Armament two 3" guns; Propulsion two Babcock and Wilcox boilers, triple expansion reciprocating steam engine, one shaft.

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USS Robin (AM 3)
Robin 57k U.S. Navy photo from the Navy Recruitment Bureau, New York Jon Burdett
Robin 74k c. 1920.
Charleston, SC
USS Sacramento (PG 19), Robin, and USS Asheville (PG 21) in dry dock		 Vance A. Adams
Robin 122k In dry dock at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, 11 March 1921.
Photographed by Crosby, 324 First Street, Portsmouth, Virginia.
Donation of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Museum, 1970.
Naval Historical Center photo NH 105197		 Robert Hurst
Robin 103k At the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, 16 March 1921. The superstructure of S.S. West Ashawa is visible in the right background.
Photographed by Crosby, "Naval Photographer", 324 First Street, Portsmouth, Virginia.
Naval Historical Center photo NH 105196		 Robert Hurst
USS Robin (AT[O] 140)
Robin 51k . S1/c Theodore Kemp
Hickory Ridge, Arkansas
Crew member 1944/1945
Robin 35k . S1/c Theodore Kemp
Hickory Ridge, Arkansas
Crew member 1944/1945
View the Robin (AM 3)
DANFS history entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway web site.
Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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