USN · AM
AfloatLapwing-class minesweeper, Minesweeper No. 20, later the tug AT-131. Commissioned on 28 January 1919. A mine killed her first commanding officer, Lieutenant Frank Bruce, off the North Sea on 14 May 1919. On 7 December 1941 Lieutenant James Louis Foley had the ready-duty nest at the Coal Docks. She fired, slipped the nest at 0835, swept off Honolulu that afternoon, and pumped California through the night. She was not hit. She was a tug in the South Pacific and was sold on 5 October 1946.
| Class | Lapwing class |
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| Type | Minesweeper (AM) |
| Hull | AM-20 |
| Builder | Baltimore Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Co. |
| Launched | 1918-06-15 |
| Commissioned | 1919-01-28 |
| Fate | Afloat. Lapwing-class minesweeper, later the ocean tug AT-131 and ATO-131. Ready-duty ship at the Coal Docks on 7 December 1941. She fired, was not hit, and pumped California that night. DANFS prints a decommissioning on 22 February 1945 and also service into the fall of 1945. NavSource dates the decommissioning 22 February 1946 at Mare Island. Sold through the Maritime Commission on 5 October 1946. One battle star. |
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Laid down, displacement, length, beam, draft, speed, and complement are not stored for each hull, so this table leaves them out.
Command
Attack on Pearl Harbor
1941-12-07 · ready duty at the Coal Docks; fired; later alongside California; not hit
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