USS Avocet
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USS Avocet (AM-19/AVP-4) was a Lapwing-class minesweeper. Avocet was commissioned at the Norfolk Navy Yard, on 17 September 1918, as a minesweeper. Recommissioned on 8 September 1925 as a small seaplane tender, USS Avocet (AVP-4) was present during the Pearl Harbor attack on 7 December 1941. The ship survived the war, and was sold as a hulk on 6 December 1946. In June, 1937, USS Avocet carried a science team to Canton Island for the total solar eclipse. There, Avocet and HMS Wellington, carrying a British science team, fired shots across each other's bows in a dispute over the choice anchorage of the island that the Americans, arriving first, had claimed. The dispute was quickly smoothed over by both governments.
1917-09-13T00:00:00Z
1917-09-13T00:00:00Z
keel laying
1945-12-10T00:00:00Z
1945-12-10T00:00:00Z
ship decommissioning
1918-09-17T00:00:00Z
1918-09-17T00:00:00Z
ship commissioning
1925-09-08T00:00:00Z
1925-09-08T00:00:00Z
ship commissioning
1918-03-09T00:00:00Z
1918-03-09T00:00:00Z
ship launching
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Avocet (AVP-4) - Passengers, May 1940 - DPLA - d322b9449c357cc89d88e42fea077cdb
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USS Avocet (AVP-4) and B-17 Pearl Harbor| Type | Subtype | Date | Description | Notes | Source |
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| link | page | Dreadnought Project page@ | Wikidata | ||
| commons | image | Avocet (AVP-4) - Passengers, May 1940 - DPLA - d322b9449c357cc89d88e42fea077cdb | Commons | ||
| commons | image | H97396 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | USS Avocet (AVP-4) and B-17 Pearl Harbor | Commons | ||
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