Allied Warships

USS Lapwing (AVP 1)

Minesweeper of the Lapwing class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeMinesweeper
ClassLapwing 
PennantAVP 1 
Built byTodd Shipyard Co. (New York, New York, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down25 Oct 1917 
Launched14 Mar 1918 
Commissioned12 Jun 1918 
End service29 Nov 1945 
Loss position
 
History

Completed as minesweeper
Decommissioned on 11 April 1922
Recommissioned on 1 September 1932 and converted to a small seaplane tender and reclassified AVP-1

Decommissioned on 29 November 1945
Sold on 19 August 1946

 

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Noteable events involving Lapwing include:


21 Feb 1942
USS Lapwing picks up 53 survivors from the American merchant Delplata that was torpedoed and heavy damaged the previous day by the German submarine U-156 some 60 miles west of Martinique in position 14º55'N, 62º10'W. After it was determined that the Delplata could not be salvaged she was sunk by gunfire from the Lapwing.

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