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Flamingo (IX 180)
ex-AMc-22



Call sign:
November - Uniform - Papa - Golf
Flamingo Class Coastal Minesweeper: Laid down in 1940 as the fishing dragger Harriet N. Eldridge; Acquired by the Navy, 4 November 1940; Placed in service as Flamingo (AMc 22), 6 June 1941; Reclassified as an Unclassified Miscellaneous Auxiliary, IX-180, 17 July 1944; Struck from the Naval Register 8 January 1946. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement unknown; Length 90'; Beam 20'; Draft 10'; Speed unknown; Complement unknown; Armament one 3"/50, one 20mm and two .30 cal. machine guns.

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Flamingo 81k Photographed soon after completion, c. 1940.
US Navy photo # NH 96309		 US Naval Historical Center
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