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Minesweeper No. 47 / AM-47 / ASR-6 Pigeon


Lapwing Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 15 June 1918 by the Baltimore Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Co., Baltimore, Md.; Launched, 29 January 1919; Commissioned USS Pigeon (Minesweeper No. 47), 15 July 1919; Designated AM-47, 17 July 1920; Decommisisoned, 25 April 1922 at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; Recommissioned, 13 October 1923; Reclassified a Submarine Rescue Ship ASR-6, 12 September 1929; Final dispostion, sunk by a Japanese dive bomber in the Philippines 4 May 1942.

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 11pdr, 2 machine guns, WWII armament, two 3"/50 guns, two 20mm guns; Propulsion one 1,400 shp Harlan and Hollingsworth, vertical triple-expansion steam engine, one shaft.
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Pigeon 135k Seen here as ASR-6
US Navy photo
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Pigeon 45k Seen here as ASR-6 grounded by a typhoon, c. late 1930s
US Navy Photo
Submitted by Fred Reep to National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors
Pigeon 91k S-40 (SS-145) alongside Pigeon (ASR-6), at Shanghai, China in 1932.
Photographed by Gustave J. Freret, Jr., USN
US Navy Pphoto NH 51815
US Naval Historical Center

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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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