USS Gannet (AM-41)
Gannet in 1937
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| Name: | USS Gannet (AM-41) |
| Namesake: | the gannet bird |
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| Laid down: | 1 October 1918 |
| Launched: | 19 March 1919 |
| Sponsored by: | Edna Mae Fry |
| Commissioned: | 10 July 1919 |
| Reclassified: | Small Seaplane Tender AVP-8, 22 January 1936 |
| Struck: | Date Unknown |
| Fate: | Torpedoed northwest of Bermuda 7 June 1942 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Lapwing-class minesweeper |
| Displacement: | 950 tons |
| Length: | 187 ft 10 in (57.25 m) |
| Beam: | 35 ft 6 in (10.82 m) |
| Draft: | 9 ft 10 in (3.00 m) |
| Propulsion: | One 1,400 shp Harlan & Hollingsworth Corp. Vertical triple expansion steam engine, one shaft. |
| Speed: | 14 knots (26 km/h) |
| Complement: | 72 |
| Armament: | 2 machine guns |
USS Gannet (AM-41) was an Lapwing-class minesweeper built for the United States Navy near the end of World War I.
Gannet was laid down 1 October 1918 by the Todd Shipyard Corp., New York; launched 19 March 1919; sponsored by Miss Edna Mae Fry; and commissioned at the New York Navy Yard 10 July 1919, Lt. John E. Armstrong in command.
Gannet departed New York 11 August 1919 and reached San Diego, California, 2 November after training out of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. A unit of the Train, Pacific Fleet, she based at San Diego and was subsequently assigned to Aircraft Squadron, Battle Fleet, and later to Base Force, U.S. Fleet. Serving primarily as a tender to aircraft squadrons, she also performed towing, transport, and passenger service along the western seaboard, and made periodic cruises as tender to aircraft units participating in Army-Navy exercises, fleet problems, and maneuvers off Hawaii, the Panama Canal, and in the Caribbean Sea.
She spent the summer months of 1926, 1929, and 1932-35 as tender to aerial survey expeditions to Alaska and the Aleutian Islands. On 30 April 1931 Gannet was designated a minesweeper for duty with aircraft. She was reclassified AVP-8, 22 January 1936.
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