Lapwing Class, U.S.Fleet Minesweepers

Photograph of USS Vireo, a Lapwing-class minesweeper

Tonnage	840 tons standard displacement
Dimensions	187'9" by 35'5" by 15' 57.23m by 10.80m by 4.57m
Maximum speed	14 knots
Complement	75
Armament	2 3"/50 AA gun
Machinery	1-shaft triple expansion reciprocating (1400 shp) 2 boilers

The Lapwings were steel-hulled oceangoing minesweepers capable of offensive minesweeping. They were quite old, having been completed around 1919.

A number of these ships had been converted to other types by the time war broke out.

Penguin	Apra	Crippled by aircraft 1941-12-8 at Apra and scuttled
Bittern	Cavite	Crippled by aircraft 1941-12-10 at Cavite and scuttled
Lark	Cavite
Quail	Cavite	Crippled by aircraft 1942-5-5 at Corregidor and scuttled
Whippoorwill	Cavite
Oriole	Dutch Harbor
Avocet	Pearl Harbor	Seaplane tender conversion
Bobolink	Pearl Harbor
Rail	Pearl Harbor
Tern	Pearl Harbor
Turkey	Pearl Harbor
Vireo	Pearl Harbor
Heron	Port Ciego, Philippines	Seaplane tender conversion
Eider	San Francisco	Net tender conversion
Teal	Aleutian Islands	Seaplane tender conversion
Viking	Recommissioned 1942-2-12 (San Diego)	Salvage ship conversion
Owl	Arrived 1945-5-12	Tugboat conversion

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