USN · AM
AfloatLapwing-class minesweeper, Minesweeper No. 52, later the tug AT-144. Commissioned at Philadelphia on 16 October 1919. On 7 December 1941 she was the inboard ship at the Coal Dock, in upkeep, with Turkey, Bobolink, and Rail outboard. She fired 22 rounds of 3-inch and 400 rounds of .30 caliber. Radioman Aubrey Evan Price was wounded. She did not sortie. That night she rescued an Enterprise aviator shot down by friendly guns. In June 1942 she towed Yorktown after Midway. She was decommissioned on 18 April 1946.
| Class | Lapwing class |
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| Type | Minesweeper (AM) |
| Hull | AM-52 |
| Builder | Philadelphia Navy Yard |
| Launched | 1919-05-26 |
| Commissioned | 1919-10-16 |
| Fate | Afloat. Lapwing-class minesweeper, later the ocean tug AT-144 and ATO-144. Inboard at the Coal Docks on 7 December 1941, in upkeep. She fired, one man was wounded, and she was not hit. Her report claims one plane. At Midway she towed the damaged Yorktown until the carrier sank. Decommissioned on 18 April 1946 and struck on 8 May 1946. Seven battle stars. DANFS says no record of her fate after transfer for disposal on 4 February 1947 has survived. |
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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 · inboard at the Coal Docks, in upkeep; fired; one man wounded; not hit
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