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Flamingo (IX 180)
ex-Flamingo (AMc 22)



Call sign:
Nan - Uncle - Peter - George
Flamingo Class Coastal Minesweeper:

  • Laid down in 1940 as the fishing dragger, Harriet N. Eldridge by Morse Shipyard, Thomaston, ME
  • Acquired by the Navy 12 November 1940
  • Placed in service as USS Flamingo (AMc 22), 6 June 1941
  • Reclassified as an Unclassified Miscellaneous Auxiliary, IX-180, 17 July 1944
  • Placed out of service 10 December 1945
  • Struck from the Navy Register 8 January 1946
  • Transferred to the War Shipping Administration in June 1946
  • Acquired in 1946 by Isaac C. Norton of Edgartown, MA for use as a fishing boat
  • Acquired in 1956 by Flamingo, Inc. of Fairhaven, MA
  • Burned on 5 November 1970 in the North Pacific at 47º55'N, 122º30'W.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 199 t.
  • Length 93' 4"
  • Beam 19' 4"
  • Draft 12' 2"
  • Speed 9 kts.
  • Armament: One 3"/50 dual purpose mount, one 20mm mount and two .30 cal. machine guns
  • Propulsion: One 180shp Cooper Bessemer diesel engine, one shaft.
    Click on thumbnail
    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    Harriet N. Eldridge
    Flamingo 81k Photographed soon after completion, c. 1940
    U.S. Navy photo NH 96309    		 Naval Historical Center
    USS Flamingo (AMc 22)
    Flamingo 40k Namesake: Flamingo - A long-legged aquatic bird Tommy Trampp
    Photo added 26 February 2020
    Flamingo 120k c. 1944
    Off Cape May, NJ    		 Joe Radigan
    Commanding Officers
    01LT Leonard Scott Bailey, USNR - Retired as Rear Admiral, USNR-R6 June 1941 - February 1942
    Courtesy Ron Reeves
    View the Flamingo (AMc-22)
    DANFS history entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway website
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