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Peacock
Minesweeper No. 46 / (AM 46)
Lapwing Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 31 August 1918 by the Staten Island Shipbuilding Co., Staten Island, NY; Launched, 8 April 1919; Commissioned USS Peacock, Minesweeper No. 46, 27 December 1919; Decommissioned, 14 February 1920 and loaned to the Shipping Board; Converted to a Salvage Tug and operated under charter to the Shipping Board; Reclassified AM 46, 17 July 1920; Collided with the Norwegian merchant ship SS Hindonger, 24 August 1940 and sank; Struck from the Naval Register, 22 April 1941.
Specifications: Displacement 840 t.; Length 187' 10"; Beam 35' 5'; Draft 8' 10"; Speed 14 kts; Complement 85; Armament two 3"/50 gun mounts; Propulsion triple expansion reciprocating steam engine, two Babcock & Wilcox boilers, one shaft.
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