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USS Crusader (ARS 2)

Minesweeper of the Lapwing class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeMinesweeper
ClassLapwing 
PennantARS 2 
Built byGas Engine & Power Co. and Charles L. Seabury (Morris Heights, New York, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down14 Nov, 1917 
Launched14 Nov, 1918 
Commissioned7 Jan, 1919 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistoryCommissioned as minesweeper on 7 January 1919
Decommissioned and transferred to the Coast and Geodetic Survey on 7 April 1922 bring renamed USC&GS Pioneer
Returned to the USN, recommissioned and reclassified as salvage ship USS Crusader (ARS-2) on 17 September 1941
Decommissioned at an unknown date 
Former nameUSS Osprey (AM 29)

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