USN · AM
AfloatLapwing-class minesweeper, Mine Sweeper No. 31, the second of the name, later the tug AT-142. Commissioned on 17 May 1919. On 7 December 1941 she was alongside Ten-Ten Dock with dead firerooms, taking steam from the dock. Her 3-inch guns were blanked by Argonne. She fired Lewis guns, got underway in an hour and forty minutes, took 47 survivors aboard, and fought fires on West Virginia and Arizona. She was not hit. She was station ship at Bora Bora, then a tug, and was decommissioned on 23 November 1945.
| Class | Lapwing class |
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| Type | Minesweeper (AM) |
| Hull | AM-31 |
| Builder | Gas Engine and Power Co. and C. L. Seabury Co., Morris Heights, New York |
| Launched | 1919-03-22 |
| Commissioned | 1919-05-17 |
| Fate | Afloat. Lapwing-class minesweeper, the second of the name, later the ocean tug AT-142 and ATO-142. Alongside the north end of Ten-Ten Dock on 7 December 1941, under upkeep with her machinery dead. She fired, picked up 47 survivors, and was not hit. Decommissioned at San Francisco on 23 November 1945 and struck on 5 December 1945. 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 · alongside Ten-Ten Dock; fired; picked up 47 survivors; not hit
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