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Minesweeper No. 1 / AM-1 / AVP-1 Lapwing


Lapwing Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 25 October 1917 at Todd Shipyard Co., NY; Launched, 14 March 1918; Commissioned USS Lapwing, Minesweeper No.1, 12 June 1918; Classified as AM-1, 17 February 1920; Decommissioned, 11 April 1922 at Pearl Harbor, TH; Recommissioned, 1 September 1932; Converted to a Small Seaplane Tender and reclassified AVP-1; Decommissioned, 29 November 1946 at Charleston, SC; Struck from the Naval Register, 1946; Sold by the Maritime Commission, 19 August 1946 to W. S. Sanders, Norfolk, VA. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 950 t.; Length 187' 10"; Beam 35' 6'; Draft 9' 10"; Speed 14 kts; Complement 78; Armament two 3"/50s; Propulsion one 1,400 shp Harlan and Hollingsworth, vertical triple-expansion steam engine, one shaft.
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Lapwing 62k Streaming her homeward-bound pennant. DANFS

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U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

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Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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