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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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29 January 1919 Sliding down the ways. Photo from the November 1954 issue of All Hands magazine. |
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Seen here as ASR-6 US Navy photo |
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c. 1929 Photo from the November 1954 issue of All Hands magazine. |
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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
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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 |
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2 September 1939 She went aground 31 August 1939 |
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2 September 1939 |
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2 September 1939 |
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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. |
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