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Minesweeper No. 48 / AM-48 / ARS-4 Redwing

Redwing served both the U. S. Navy and U. S. Coast Guard.

Sunk 29 June 1943

Lapwing Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 6 August 1918 at Baltimore Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Co., Baltimore, Md.; Launched, 7 June 1919; Commissioned USS Redwing, Minesweeper No. 48, 17 October 1919; Designated AM-48, 17 July 1920; Decommissioned, 14 April 1922; Transferred to the Coast Guard, 24 May 1924; Placed in commission as USCGC Redwing (WAT 48), 11 October 1924; Custody returned to US Navy, 29 August 1941; Converted to a Rescue and Salvage Ship at Brooklyn Navy Yard; Recommissioned USS Redwing (ARS-4), 28 October 1941; Lost to underwater mine explosion off Bizerte, Tunisia, 29 June 1943; Struck from the Naval Register, 19 August 1943.

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


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Redwing 65k c. September 1919
Seen here prior to commissioning as Minesweeper No. 48 at her builders yard, Baltimore Shipbuilding and Dry
Dock Co.
US Navy Photo
Submitted by Robert Blackman to National Association of Fleet
Tug Sailors
Note: Robert Blackman was the helmsman when Redwing sunk.
Redwing 47k Seen here as USCGC Redwing (WAT 48). Hyperwar US Navy in World
War II
Redwing 47k As ARS-4 in New York. Note the Statue of Liberty over
the bow.
US Navy Photo
Joe Radigan
Redwing 59k 29 June 1943
Redwing sinking in 27 fathoms after hitting a mine en route from Algiers to Tunis. Five men forward were killed when the mine blew out her bow.
Photo by Ted Dicecco, Avondale, PA
Naval Historical Center
Joe Radigan

View the Redwing (AM-48)
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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