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Tern (AT[O] 142)
ex-AT-142
ex-AM-31
ex-Minesweeper No. 31
Lapwing Class Minesweeper: Laid down 7 September 1918 at Gas Engine and Power Co. and C. L. Seabury Co., Morris Heights, NY; Launched. 22 March 1919; Commissioned USS Tern, Minesweeper No. 31, 17 May 1919; Designated AM-31, 17 July 1920; Reclassified as an Ocean Tug, AT-142, 1 June 1942; Reclassified as an Ocean Tug (Old), AT(O)-142, 15 May 1944; Decommissioned, 23 November 1945 at San Francisco, CA; Struck from the Naval Register, 5 December 1945. Fate unknown.
Specifications: Displacement 950 t.; Length 187' 10"; Beam 35' 6"; Draft 9' 9"; Speed 14 kts; Complement 78; Armament one 11pdr, two machine guns, Propulsion triple expansion reciprocating steam engine, two Babcock and Wilcox boilers, one shaft.
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Seen here in the Panana Canal
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USS Tern (AM-31) fighting fires aboard the sunken USS West Virginia (BB-48), on 7 December 1941, immediately after the Japanese raid.
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