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Heron (AVP 2)
ex-AM-10
ex-Minesweeper No. 10

Lapwing Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 26 August 1917 at Standard Shipbuilding Co. New York; Launched, 18 May 1918; Commissioned USS Heron, Minesweeper No. 10, 30 October 1918; Designated AM-10, 17 February 1920; Decommissioned 6 April 1922 at Cavite Navy Yard, Philippine Islands; Recommissioned, 18 December 1924; Reclassified as a Small Seaplane Tender, AVP-2, 27 January 1936; Decommissioned 12 February 1946 at Subic Bay Naval Station, PI; Struck from the Naval Register, c. 1946; Transferred to the U.S. State Department, Foreign Liquidation Commission in July 1947 for disposal. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 950 t.; Length 187' 10"; Beam 35' 6'; Draft 9' 10"; Speed 14 kts; Complement 78; Armament two 3" gun mounts and machine guns; Propulsion one 1,400 shp Harlan and Hollingsworth, vertical triple-expansion steam engine, one shaft.

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Heron 66k Seen here tending seaplanes, c. 18 December 1924 to 21 January 1936. Note old hull number (10)
U.S. Navy photo 		Hazegray & Underway Web Site
Heron 48k Seen here as AVP-2
U.S. Navy photo 		Submitted by Fred Reep to National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors
Heron 48k Chefoo, China. U.S. warships inside and outside the breakwater, during the 1930s.
Color-tinted photograph by the Ah-Fung O.K. Photo Service.
Among the ships present are USS Black Hawk (AD-9), in left center, with a nest of four destroyers alongside. USS Whipple (DD-217) is the outboard unit of these four. USS Heron (AM 10) is alongside the breakwater, at right. Left-most of the four destroyers outside the breakwater is USS Stewart (DD-224).
Courtesy of James E. Thompson, 1979.
U.S. Navy photo NH 90544-KN 		Naval Historical Center
Heron 48k Panoramic photograph of the ship moored at Chefoo, China, with destroyers and a minesweeper nested alongside, circa the late 1930s. Ships alongside Black Hawk are (from left to right): USS Paul Jones (DD-230); USS John D. Ford (DD-228); USS Peary (DD-226); and Heron (AM 10), wearing her old minesweeper number: AM-10. A Grumman JF amphibian, one of the airplanes tended by Heron is moored at right.
Courtesy of Photographer's Mate First Class Harold Gerwien, USN, 1986.
U.S. Navy photo NH 95960 		Naval Historical Center
Heron 48k USS Black Hawk (AD-9) at Manila, Philippine Islands, 15 November 1935, with four destroyers and USS Heron (AM-10) nested alongside. The four destroyers are (from left to right): USS Whipple (DD-217); USS John D. Edwards (DD-216); USS Smith Thompson (DD-212); and USS Barker (DD-213). All ships are "full dressed" with flags in honor of the inauguration of Philippine President Manuel Quezon.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
U.S. Navy photo 80-G-1025121 		Naval Historical Center
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