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

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

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; Final disposition, lost to underwater explosion off port of 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 11pdr, 2 machine guns, WWII armament, two 3"/50 guns, two 20mm guns.
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Redwing 65k Seen here prior to commissioning as Minesweeper No. 48 at her builders yard, Baltimore Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., c. September 1919.
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
ARS-4 47k As ARS-4 in New York. Note the Statue of Liberty over the bow.
US Navy Photo
Joseph M. Radigan

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