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Warbler (ARS 11)



Call sign:
Nan - Queen - Roger - Xray

ex-AM-53
ex-Minesweeper No. 53

Lapwing Class Minesweeper: Laid down 28 April 1919 by the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, PA; Launched, 20 July 1919; Commissioned USS Warbler, Minesweeper No. 53, 22 December 1919; Classified AM-53, 17 July 1920; Decommissioned, 16 June 1923; Transferred on loan to the United States Shipping Board; Reclassified as a Salvage Ship, ARS-11, 13 September 1941; Designated for disposal, 29 March 1946; Declared surplus, 13 January 1947; Struck from the Navy Registery 10 June 1947; Sold 1 December 1948. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 950 t.; Length 187' 10"; Beam 35' 5'; Draft 9' 9.5"; Speed 14 kts; Complement 85; Armament none (as AM), 20mm or smaller (as ARS); Propulsion two Babcock and Wilcox 200psi boilers, Harlan and Hollingsworth Corp.1,200shp triple expansion engine, one shaft.

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Warbler 97k . Gunter Krebs
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