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Minesweeper No. 32 / AM-32 Flamingo
ARS-1 Viking


Lapwing Class Minesweeper: Laid down at New Jersey Drydock and Transportation Co., Elizabethport, NJ; Launched, 24 August 1918; Commissioned USS Flamingo (Minesweeper No. 32), 12 February 1919; Reclassified AM-32, 17 July 1920; Decommissioned, 5 May 1922 and transferred to the Coast and Geodetic Survey, 23 January 1923, renamed USC&GS Guide, 1 March 1923; Returned to the Navy, 27 June 1941 and converted to a Salvage and Rescue Vessel at San Diego Marine Construction Co., San Diego, CA. and renamed Viking (ARS-1), Placed in-service, 3 January 1942, civilian manned and operated under contract to the Merritt, Chapman and Scott Salvage Co., San Diego, CA; Placed out-of-service and returned by the contractor to Naval custody, 17 March 1953; Struck from the Naval Register, 19 April 1953; Final disposition, sold for scrapping, 22 July 1953 to Nathan Cohen and Son Inc., Los Angeles, CA.

Specifications: Displacement 950 t.; Length 187' 10"; Beam 35' 6"; Draft 9' 9"; Speed 14 kts; Complement 82; Armament two .30 cal Lewis machine guns.
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Flamingo 96k . Office of the Oceanographer of the Navy
Flamingo 85k Coast and Geodetic Survey Ships Guide (in foreground) and Discoverer (ex-Auk AM 38). Taking on fuel from USS Chester (CA 27) at Dutch Harbor, Unalaska Island, Alaska, 4 July 1939. NOAA Photo Library, NOAA Central Library; C&GS Season's Report Eickelberg 1939-32.
Osprey/Flamingo 108k Seen here as USC&GS Guide (right) along with USC&CS Pioneer at Dutch Harbor, Unalaska Island, Alaska, 1940. USC&GS photo Ramon Jackson

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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

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