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Tanager (Minesweeper No. 5 / AM 5)

Tanager sank 4 May 1942

Lapwing Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 28 September 1917 by the Staten Island Shipbuilding Co., New York, NY; Launched, 2 March 1918; Commissioned USS Tanager (Minesweeper No. 5), 28 June 1918; Reclassified AM-5, 17 July 1920; Struck by Japanese shore batteries on Bataan, 4 May 1942 and sank off Corregidor; Struck from the Naval Register, 8 May 1942.

Specifications: Displacement 840 t.; Length 187' 10"; Beam 28' 8"; Draft 10' 3"; Speed 14 kts; Complement 85; Armament two 3" guns; Propulsion Harlan and Hollingsworth, vertical triple expansion steam engine, one shaft.
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Tanager 109k Conducting sweep operations in the North Sea, July 1919
US Navy Photo NH 471943
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