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Woodcock (AT[O] 145)
ex-AT-145
ex-AM-14

Lapwing Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 19 October 1917 by the Chester Shipbuilding Co., Chester, PA; Launched, 12 May 1918; Commissioned USS Woodcock, (Minesweeper No. 14), 19 February 1919; Designated AM-14, 17 July 1920; Decommissioned, 5 May 1922 at Portsmouth Navy Yard, NH; Recommissioned, 21 February 1924; Reclassified as an Ocean Tug, AT-145, 1 June 1942; Reclassified as an Ocean Tug (Old), AT(O)-145, 15 May 1944; Decommissioned, 30 September 1946 at Charleston, SC; Struck from the Naval Register, 23 April 1947; Transferred to the Maritime Commission, 4 August 1947; Sold for scrap 19 December 1947 to the Potomac Shipwrecking Co., Inc. of Pope's Creek, MD.

Specifications: Displacement 950 t.; Length 187' 10"; Beam 35' 6'; Draft 9' 9"; Speed 14 kts; Complement 85; Armament two 3" gun mounts; Propulsion triple expansion reciprocating steam engine, two Babcock and Wilcox boilers, one shaft.

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USS Woodcock (Minesweeper No. 14)
Woodcock 110k While taking part in clearing the North Sea mine barrage, "The fleet put in (to) Stavanger, a bustling town in Norway, made prosperous by the war." (quoted from the original 1919 vintage caption). Woodcock is in the foreground. In the left background are (from front to rear): USS SC-356, USS SC-40, USS Eider (Minesweeper No. 17), USS Sanderling (Minesweeper No. 37) - probable identification, USS Auk (Minesweeper No. 38) and an unidentified minesweeper.
U. S. Navy photo from the Navy Recruitment Bureau, New York
U.S. Navy photo NH 99789		 Original from Jon Burdett
Replacement from the Naval Historical Center
USS Woodcock (AM 14)
Woodcock 79k . Sam Betterton
Woodcock 71k Calvin Betterton, who served in Woodcock from 19 January 1933 to 15 October 1934 Sam Betterton
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