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Minesweeper No. 29 / AM-29 Osprey
ARS-2 Crusader

Osprey served both the U. S. Navy and the Department of Commerce.

Lapwing Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 14 November 1917 by the Gas Engine & Power Co. and Charles L Seabury, Morris Heights, NY; Launched, 14 November 1918; Commissioned USS Osprey (Minesweeper No. 29), 7 January 1919; Redesignated AM-29, 17 July 1920; Decommissioned and transferred to the Coast and Geodetic Survey, 7 April 1922; , Renamed USC&GS Pioneer; Returned to Navy custody, recommissioned and reclassified as a Salvage Ship, USS Crusader (ARS-2), 17 September 1941; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal, 13 February 1947. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 950 t.; Length 187' 10"; Beam 35' 6"; Draft 9' 9"; Speed 14 kts; Complement 82; Armament two .30 cal Lewis machine guns; Propulsion Harlan and Hollingsworth, vertical triple expansion steam engine, one shaft.
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Pioneer 98k USC&GS Pioneer. Office of the Oceanographer of the Navy
Pioneer/Guide 108k Seen here as USC&GS Pioneer (left) along with USC&GS Guide, ex-Flamingo (AM 32) (right) at Dutch Harbor, Unalaska,
Alaska, 1940
USC&GS Photo
Ramon Jackson

View the Osprey (AM-29)
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

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