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Avocet (AVP 4)
ex-AM-19
ex-Minesweeper No. 19

Lapwing Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 13 September1918 at Baltimore Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Co., Baltimore, MD; Launched, 9 March 1918; Commissioned USS Avocet, Minesweeper No.19, 17 September 1918; Designated AM-19, 17 February 1920; Decommissioned 3 April 1922 at Cavite Navy Yard, Philippines; Recommissioned, 8 September 1925 at Cavite; Reclassified as a Small Seaplane Tender, AVP-4, 22 January 1936; Decommissioned, 10 December 1945; Sold for scrapping, 12 December 1946.

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 triple expansion reciprocating steam engine, two Babcock and Wilcox boilers, one shaft.

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USS Avocet (AM 19)
Avocet 94k c. July/August 1921
USS California (BB 44) and Avocet in the Mare Island Channel.		 Darryl Baker
Avocet 85k 10 August 1921
Commissioning ceremony aboard USS California (BB 44) at Mare Island Navy Yard. Avocet is alongside the California's port side.
U.S. Navy photo 6627		 Darryl Baker
USS Avocet (AVP 4)
Avocet 335k 7 December 1941
Position of Avocet and other ships at Pearl Harbor.
Map courtesy of National Geographic Book Division		 Joe Radigan
Avocet 94k Avocet at Berth Fox-1A, at Ford Island, prior to 1045 hrs. on 7 December, when she moved to avoid oil fires drifting southward along the shore of Ford Island.
U.S. Navy photo 80-G-32669		 Naval Historical Center
Avocet 102k Avocet in foreground with Nevada (BB-36) in background, headed down channel after being intensely attacked by Japanese dive bombers. Photographed from Ford Island
U.S. Navy photo NH 97396		 Naval Historical Center
Avocet 83k Gunners on board Avocet look for more Japanese planes, at about the time the air raid ended. Photographed from atop a building at Naval Air Station Ford Island, looking toward the Navy Yard. Nevada (BB-36) is at right, with her bow afire. Beyond her is the burning Shaw (DD-373). Smoke at left comes from the destroyers Cassin (DD-372) and Downes (DD-375), ablaze in Drydock Number One.
U.S. Navy photo 80-G-32445 		US Naval Historical Center
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Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
Hazegray & Underway World Aircraft Carrier Pages
Report of Offensive Measures Taken During December 7th
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