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NavSource Online: Mine Warfare Vessel Photo Archive

YNG-20
ex-Eider (AM 17)

Lapwing Class Minesweeper: Laid down 25 September 1917 by the Pusey and Jones Co., Wilmington, DE; Launched 26 May 1918; Commissioned USS Eider, Minesweeper No. 17, 23 January 1919; Classified AM-17, 17 July 1920; Placed in reduced commission, 1 December 1919; Placed in full commission, 10 July 1920; Placed in reduced commission a second time, 10 September 1920; Decommissioned, 18 April 1922; Reclassified as a Gate Craft, YNG-20, 7 October 1940; Placed in service in 1941; Transferred to the Maritime Commission in July 1947 for disposal. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 840 t.; Length 187' 10"; Beam 35' 6'; Draft 9' 9"; Speed 14 kts; Complement 61; Armament two 3" gun mounts; Propulsion triple expansion reciprocating steam engine, two Babcock and Wilcox boilers, one shaft.

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USS Eider (Minesweeper No. 17)
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 45258		 Naval Historical Center
Eider 119k Eider with identification letter "N" in a North Sea port, probably Kirkwall, Orkney Islands, during the the North Sea mine barrage clearance operation in 1919. She has several submarine chasers alongside including, from left to right:
SC-25, SC-45, SC-356, SC-47 and SC-40.Halftone reproduction, published in the cruise book "Sweeping the North Sea Mine Barrage, 1919", page 142.
Donation of Chief Storekeeper Charles A. Free.
U.S. Navy photo NH 99789		 Naval Historical Center
USS Eider (AM 17)
Eider 79k c. Aug - Sep 1920
Mare Island, CA 		Darryl Baker
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