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NavSource Online: Mine Warfare Vessel Photo Archive
Rail (Minesweeper No. 26 / AM 26)
AT / AT(O)-139
Lapwing Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 15 December 1917 at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, WA; Launched, 25 April 1918; Commissioned USS Rail, Minesweeper No.26, 5 June 1918; Designated AM-26, 17 July 1920; Reclassified a Fleet Tug AT-139, 1 June 1942; Reclassified a Fleet Tug (Old) AT(O)-139, 15 May 1944; Decommissioned and struck from the Naval Register, 29 April 1946, at San Francisco, CA; Transferred to the Maritime
Commission for disposal, 17 January 1947. Fate unknown. Rail earned six battle stars for World War II service.
Specifications: Displacement 840 t.; Length 187' 10"; Beam 35' 6'; Draft 10' 4"; Speed 14 kts; Complement 72; Armament two machine guns; Propulsion Harlan and Hollingsworth, verticle triple expansion reciprocation steam engine, two Babcock and Wilcox boilers,
one shaft.
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Courtesy of Pearl Harbor survivor Leland James. |
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c. March 1922. With a Wyoming (BB 32)-class battleship off the bow. U.S. Navy Photo NH 000805 |
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c. March 1922. In harbor astern of Vireo (AM 52). U.S. Navy Photo NH 50207 |
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