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Chewink (ASR 3)



Call sign:
Nan - Item - Jig - Victor

ex-AM-39
ex-Minesweeper No. 39

Lapwing Class Minesweeper: Laid down 8 July 1918 by the Todd Shipyard Corp., New York, NY; Launched, 21 December 1918; Commissioned USS Chewink, Minesweeper No. 39, 9 April 1919; Classified AM-39, 17 July 1920; Reclassified as a Submarine Rescue Ship, ASR-3, 12 September 1929; Decommissioned 21 August 1933 at Pearl Harbor, HI; Recommissioned, 12 November 1940 at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA.; Decommissioned, 4 February 1947 at Brooklyn, NY; Sunk as a target 31 July 1947 off New London, CT.

Specifications: Displacement 1,400 t.; Length 188' 7"; Beam 36' 8"; Draft 13' 2"; Speed 14 kts; Complement 91; Armament one 3"/50 dual purpose mount; Propulsion two 200psi Babcock and Wilcox saturated steam boilers, Harlan and Hollingsworth Corp. 1,400shp triple expansion vertical engine, one shaft.
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USS Chewink (AM 39)
Chewink 60k National Archives photo Ramon Jackson
USS Chewink (ASR 3)
Chewink 64k . Donald Tabor via the National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors
View the Chewink (AM-39)
DANFS history entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway web site.
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Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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