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USS Crusader (ARS 2)



Call sign:
Nan - Queen - Love - Victor

ex-USC&GS Pioneer
ex-USS Osprey (AM 29)
ex-Minesweeper No. 29

Osprey served both the U. S. Navy and the Coast & Geodetic Survey.
Lapwing Class Minesweeper: Laid down 14 November 1917 by the Gas Engine & Power Co. and Charles L. Seabury, Morris Heights, NY; Launched, 19 November 1918; Commissioned USS Osprey (Minesweeper No. 29), 7 January 1919; Designated AM-29, 17 July 1920; Decommissioned and transferred to the Coast and Geodetic Survey, 7 April 1922; , Renamed USC&GS Pioneer; Returned to Navy custody, recommissioned and reclassified as a Salvage Ship, USS Crusader (ARS-2), 17 September 1941; Transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal, 13 February 1947; Sold in April 1952. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 950 t.; Length 187' 10"; Beam 35' 6"; Draft 9' 9"; Speed 14 kts; Complement 82; Armament two .30 cal Lewis machine guns (as AM 29), 20mm or smaller (as ARS); Propulsion two 200psi Babcock and Wilcox boilers, Harlan and Hollingsworth Corp. 1,400shp vertical triple expansion engine, one shaft.

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USS Osprey (Minesweeper No. 29)
Penguin 80k "The Buoy Laying Division in Kirkwall Harbor." From left to right, in center: Osprey, Penguin (Minesweeper #33), and USS Lapwing (Minesweeper # 1) moored together in Kirkwall Harbor, Orkney Islands, during the sweeping of the North Sea Mine Barrage, 1919. Note the identification letters on the ships' bows: "A" on Osprey, "PD" on Penguin and "W" on Lapwing.
Halftone reproduction of a photograph taken by Kitress, of USS Swan [Minesweeper No. 34], published in the cruise book "Sweeping the North Sea Mine Barrage, 1919", page 63.
Donation of Chief Storekeeper Charles A. Free.
U.S. Navy photo NH 99474		 Naval Historical Center
USC&GS Pioneer
Pioneer 98k USC&GS Pioneer. Office of the Oceanographer of the Navy
Pioneer/Guide 108k Seen here as USC&GS Pioneer (left) along with USC&GS Guide, ex-Flamingo (AM 32) (right) at Dutch Harbor, Unalaska, Alaska, 1940
USC&GS Photo		 Ramon Jackson
Osprey 61k USC&GS Pioneer Joe Radigan
Flamingo/Osprey 118k c. 1940
Alaska
Coast and Geodetic Survey Ships Pioneer and Guide
NOAA Photo Library, NOAA Central Library; Captain Harry D. Reed, C&GS		 NOAA Website
View the Osprey (AM-29)
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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