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Widgeon (ASR 1)



Call sign:
Nan - Able - Queen - Fox

ex-AM-22
ex-Minesweeper No. 22

Lapwing Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 8 October 1917 at Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Chester, PA; Launched 5 May 1918; Commissioned USS Widgeon, Minesweeper No.22, 27 July 1918; Designated AM-22, 17 February 1920; Decommissioned, 15 April 1922 for conversion to a Salvage Vessel at Charleston Navy Yard, Charleston, SC; Recommissioned 5 March 1923 as AM-22 with salvage capability; Reclassified as a Submarine Rescue Ship, ASR-1, 22 June 1936; Decommissioned, 5 February 1947; Struck from the Navy Register 23 December 1947; Sold for scrap to the Basalt Rock Co. of Napa, CA.

Specifications: Displacement 1,400 t.; Length 187' 10"; Beam 37' 6"; Draft 13' 2"; Speed 14 kts; Complement 91; Armament two 3"/50 dual purpose mounts; Propulsion two Babcock and Wilcox 200psi saturated steam boilers, one 1,400shp Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. vertical triple expansion engine, one shaft.

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USS Widgeon (AM 22)
Widgeon 66k c. 1926
Hawaii.
The photo was taken from the deck of an R class submarine.		 Ric Hedman TN(SS)
USS Widgeon (ASR 1)
Widgeon 73k Widgeon alongside the stern of sunken Arizona (BB-39), probably on or about 8 December 1941. Arizona's two after triple 14"/45 gun turrets, visible at left, were later removed and turned over to the Army for use as coastal defense batteries on Oahu. In the right distance is the hulk of the old minelayer Baltimore (CM-1).
National Archives photo 80-G-32761		 Naval Historical Center
Widgeon 110k 29 October 1943
Broadside view of the Widgeon off San Francisco, CA
U.S. Navy photo 7390-43		 Original photo from Donald Tabor via the National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors
Replacement photo from Darryl Baker.
Widgeon 95k Widgeon stands by in the background as Apogon (SS-308), undergoes comprehensive remote control tests prior to her role in Operation "Crossroads," June 1946.
National Archives photo 80-G-702799		 Joe Radigan, MACM, USN, Ret.
Widgeon 85k U.S. Navy photo from the August 1959 edition of All Hands magazine. Joe Radigan
View the Widgeon (AM-22)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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