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USS Redwing (ARS 4)
ex-USCGC Redwing (WAT 48)
ex-USS Redwing (AM 48)
ex-USS Redwing Minesweeper No. 48

Redwing served both the U. S. Navy and U. S. Coast Guard.

Sunk 29 June 1943
Lapwing Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 6 August 1918 at Baltimore Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Co., Baltimore, Md.; Launched, 7 June 1919; Commissioned USS Redwing, Minesweeper No. 48, 17 October 1919; Designated AM-48, 17 July 1920; Decommissioned, 14 April 1922; Transferred to the Coast Guard, 24 May 1924; Placed in commission as USCGC Redwing (WAT 48), 11 October 1924; Custody returned to U.S. Navy 29 August 1941; Converted to a Rescue and Salvage Ship at Brooklyn Navy Yard; Recommissioned USS Redwing (ARS-4), 28 October 1941; Lost to underwater mine explosion off Bizerte, Tunisia, 29 June 1943; Struck from the Navy Register 19 August 1943.

Specifications: Displacement 950 t.(lt) 1,009 t.(fl); Length 187' 10"; Beam 35' 6"; Draft 9' 9"; Speed 14 kts; Complement 72; Armament as built, one 11-pounder, two machine guns - WWII armament two 3"/50s and two 20mm; Propulsion one 1,400 shp Harlan and Hollingsworth, vertical triple-expansion steam engine, one shaft.

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USS Redwing (Minesweeper No. 48)
Redwing 65k c. September 1919
Seen here prior to commissioning as Minesweeper No. 48 at her builders yard, Baltimore Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co.
U.S. Navy photo		 Submitted by Robert Blackman to National Association of Fleet
Tug Sailors
Note: Robert Blackman was the helmsman when Redwing sunk.
USS Redwing (AM 48)
Redwing 156k At the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, 19 April 1921. USS Duncan (DD-46) is inboard of Redwing, with her forward superstructure and four smokestacks visible in the left half of
the photograph.
Panoramic photograph by Crosby, "Naval Photographer", 324 First Street, Portsmouth, Virginia.
Donation of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Museum, 1970.
Naval Historical Center photo NH 90492		 Robert Hurst
USCGC Redwing (WAT 48)
Redwing 47k Hyperwar U.S. Navy in World
War II
USS Redwing (ARS 4)
Redwing 47k Off New York. The Statue of Liberty is over her bow.
U.S. Navy Photo		 Joe Radigan
Redwing 59k 29 June 1943
Redwing sinking in 27 fathoms after hitting a mine en route from Algiers to Tunis. Five men forward were killed when the mine blew out her bow.
Photo by Ted Dicecco, Avondale, PA
Naval Historical Center photo		 Joe Radigan
View the Redwing (AM-48)
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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