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Minesweeper No. 47 / AM-47 / ASR-6 Pigeon

Sunk 4 May 1942

Lapwing Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 15 June 1918 by the Baltimore Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Co., Baltimore, Md.; Launched, 29 January 1919; Commissioned USS Pigeon (Minesweeper No. 47), 15 July 1919; Designated AM-47, 17 July 1920; Decommisisoned, 25 April 1922 at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; Recommissioned, 13 October 1923; Reclassified a Submarine Rescue Ship ASR-6, 12 September 1929; Sunk by a Japanese dive bomber off Corregidor, Philippines,
4 May 1942.

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 11pdr, 2 machine guns, WWII armament, two 3"/50 guns, two 20mm guns; Propulsion one 1,400 shp Harlan and Hollingsworth, vertical triple-expansion steam engine, one shaft.


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Pigeon 89k 29 January 1919
Sliding down the ways.
Photo from the November 1954 issue of All
Hands magazine
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Joe Radigan
Pigeon 135k Seen here as ASR-6
US Navy photo
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Pigeon 117k c. 1929
Photo from the November 1954 issue of All
Hands magazine
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Joe Radigan
Pigeon 91k S-40 (SS-145) alongside Pigeon (ASR-6), at Shanghai, China in 1932.
Photographed by Gustave J. Freret, Jr., USN
US Navy Photo NH 51815
US Naval Historical Center
Pigeon 45k c. late 1930s
Seen here as ASR-6 grounded by a typhoon.
US Navy Photo
Submitted by Fred Reep to National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors
Pigeon 54k 2 September 1939
She went aground 31 August 1939
James D. McGrew
Pigeon 65k 2 September 1939 James D. McGrew
Pigeon 60k 2 September 1939 James D. McGrew
Finch/Pigeon 16k 1 October 1939
Finch (AM 9) towing Pigeon free after she had run aground. The craft on the left is unknown.
Photo taken from the deck of the Augusta.
James D. McGrew

View the Pigeon (AM-47)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site. The main archive for the DANFS Online Project.

Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors

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