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Mallard (ASR 4)



Call sign:
Nan - Item - King - Baker

ex-AM-44
ex-Minesweeper No. 44

Lapwing Class Minesweeper: Laid down 25 May 1918 by the Staten Island Shipbuilding Co., Staten Island, NY; Launched, 17 December 1918; Commissioned USS Mallard, Minesweeper No. 44, 25 June 1919; Classified AM-44, 17 July 1920; Reclassified as a Submarine Rescue Ship, ASR-4, 12 September 1929; Decommissioned 10 December 1947 and stripped at the New York Navy Yard; Sunk as a target 22 May 1947 by USS
Piper (SS 409).

Specifications: Displacement 1,400 t.; Length 187' 10"; 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 Mallard (AM 44)
Mallard 84k c. 1920. Dictionary of American Fighting Ships
USS Mallard (ASR 4)
Mallard 56k . Donald Taber via the National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors
Mallard 47k . Donald Taber via the National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors
Mallard 59k . Donald Taber via the National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors
Mallard 67k . Donald Taber via the National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors
View the Mallard (AM 44)
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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