USN · AM
AfloatLapwing-class minesweeper, Minesweeper No. 13, later the tug AT-143. Laid down at Chester on 19 August 1917 and commissioned on 13 December 1918. She swept the North Sea barrage in 1919, was laid up at Pearl Harbor in 1922, and recommissioned at Mare Island on 15 August 1938. On 7 December 1941 she was in a nest at the Coal Docks. She fired 37 rounds of 3-inch and about 2,350 rounds of .30 caliber, was not hit, and her report refused a single-ship claim for a smoking plane. She spent the rest of the war as a tug and was sold for scrap on 30 December 1946.
| Class | Lapwing class |
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| Type | Minesweeper (AM) |
| Hull | AM-13 |
| Builder | Chester Shipbuilding Co., Chester, Pennsylvania |
| Launched | 1918-04-30 |
| Commissioned | 1918-12-13 |
| Fate | Afloat. Lapwing-class minesweeper, later the ocean tug AT-143 and ATO-143. At the Coal Docks on 7 December 1941, fired, and was not hit. Her commanding officer was not aboard at the first shots. Decommissioned at San Francisco on 6 November 1945, struck on 28 November 1945, and sold to the Hawley Forge and Manufacturing Company on 30 December 1946. One battle star. DANFS prints the 1920 hull number as AM-17. NavSource and the Navy list of ships present print AM-13. |
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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 · at the Coal Docks; fired; commanding officer not aboard at the open; not hit
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