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style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Decommissioned</td><td>21 August 1933</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Reclassified</td><td><ul style="list-style:none; margin:0;"> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">AM-39, 17 July 1920</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">ASR-3, 12 September 1929</li> </ul></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Recommissioned</td><td>12 November 1940</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Decommissioned</td><td>4 February 1947</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Fate</td><td>Sunk as a target off <a href="/wiki/New_London,_Connecticut" title="New London, Connecticut">New London</a>, 31 July 1947</td></tr> <tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">General characteristics</th></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Class and type</td><td><a href="/wiki/Lapwing-class_minesweeper" title="Lapwing-class minesweeper"><i>Lapwing</i>-class</a> <a href="/wiki/Minesweeper" title="Minesweeper">minesweeper</a></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Displacement</td><td>950 long tons (965 t)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Length</td><td>187 ft 10 in (57.25 m)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Beam</td><td>35 ft 6 in (10.82 m)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Draft</td><td>9 ft 9 in (2.97 m)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Speed</td><td>14 <a href="/wiki/Knot_(unit)" title="Knot (unit)">knots</a> (26 km/h; 16 mph)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Complement</td><td>78</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Armament</td><td>2 × <a href="/wiki/3%22/23_caliber_gun" class="mw-redirect" title="3"/23 caliber gun">3 in (76 mm)</a> guns</td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>The first <b>USS <i>Chewink</i> (AM-39/ASR-3)</b> was a <a href="/wiki/Lapwing-class_minesweeper" title="Lapwing-class minesweeper"><i>Lapwing</i>-class</a> <a href="/wiki/Minesweeper" title="Minesweeper">minesweeper</a> in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">United States Navy</a>. She was later converted to a submarine rescue ship. </p><p><i>Chewink</i> was launched 21 December 1918 by <a href="/wiki/Todd_Shipyard" class="mw-redirect" title="Todd Shipyard">Todd Shipyard</a> Corp., <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>; sponsored by Miss M. Sperrin; and commissioned 9 April 1919. She was reclassified <b>ASR-3</b> on 12 September 1929. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="North_Sea_mine_clearance_operations">North Sea mine clearance operations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=USS_Chewink_(AM-39)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: North Sea mine clearance operations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Chewink</i> sailed from <a href="/wiki/Boston,_Massachusetts" class="mw-redirect" title="Boston, Massachusetts">Boston, Massachusetts</a>, 23 May 1919 for <a href="/wiki/Kirkwall" title="Kirkwall">Kirkwall</a>, <a href="/wiki/Orkney_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="Orkney Islands">Orkney Islands</a>, arriving 5 July to aid in the vast task of clearing the <a href="/wiki/North_Sea" title="North Sea">North Sea</a> minefields. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="U.S._East_Coast_operations">U.S. East Coast operations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=USS_Chewink_(AM-39)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: U.S. East Coast operations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>She returned via <a href="/wiki/Lisbon" title="Lisbon">Lisbon</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Azores" title="Azores">Azores</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Bermuda" title="Bermuda">Bermuda</a> to <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York</a>, arriving 19 November, and for the next 11 years operated along the east coast and to <a href="/wiki/Cuba" title="Cuba">Cuba</a> and <a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rico" title="Puerto Rico">Puerto Rico</a> in a variety of duties, which included salvage, target towing, a school for Naval Engineering, recovering mines, experimental underwater <a href="/wiki/Radio" title="Radio">radio</a> tests, net laying and tending, and tending <a href="/wiki/Submarines" class="mw-redirect" title="Submarines">submarines</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="U.S._West_Coast_operations">U.S. West Coast operations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=USS_Chewink_(AM-39)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: U.S. West Coast operations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In October 1930 she sailed from <a href="/wiki/New_London,_Connecticut" title="New London, Connecticut">New London, Connecticut</a>, with Submarine Division 4 for <a href="/wiki/Pearl_Harbor" title="Pearl Harbor">Pearl Harbor</a>, to be stationed there as <a href="/wiki/Submarine_tender" title="Submarine tender">submarine tender</a>, until 5 January 1931, and then at <a href="/wiki/Coco_Solo" title="Coco Solo">Coco Solo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Panama_Canal_Zone" title="Panama Canal Zone">Panama Canal Zone</a> until August 1933. <i>Chewink</i> was decommissioned at <a href="/wiki/Pearl_Harbor" title="Pearl Harbor">Pearl Harbor</a> 21 August 1933, remaining there until April 1937, when her berth was changed to <a href="/wiki/Mare_Island_Navy_Yard" class="mw-redirect" title="Mare Island Navy Yard">Mare Island Navy Yard</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="World_War_II_East_Coast_operations">World War II East Coast operations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=USS_Chewink_(AM-39)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: World War II East Coast operations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Chewink</i> recommissioned 12 November 1940, sailed from <a href="/wiki/San_Diego,_California" class="mw-redirect" title="San Diego, California">San Diego, California</a>, 3 February 1941, and on 10 May reached <a href="/wiki/New_London,_Connecticut" title="New London, Connecticut">New London, Connecticut</a>, her base through the remainder of her active service. During <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, she aided America's growing ability to make war beneath the sea as she operated training divers, in <a href="/wiki/Submarine" title="Submarine">submarine</a> search and rescue exercises, as a station ship, and as a <a href="/wiki/Target_ship" title="Target ship">target ship</a> for submarine <a href="/wiki/Torpedoes" class="mw-redirect" title="Torpedoes">torpedoes</a>. Her operations took her to <a href="/wiki/City_of_Halifax" class="mw-redirect" title="City of Halifax">Halifax, Nova Scotia</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Argentia,_Newfoundland" class="mw-redirect" title="Argentia, Newfoundland">Argentia, Newfoundland</a>, and several times to <a href="/wiki/Key_West,_Florida" class="mw-redirect" title="Key West, Florida">Key West, Florida</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="End-of-War_decommissioning">End-of-War decommissioning</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=USS_Chewink_(AM-39)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: End-of-War decommissioning"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Chewink</i> was decommissioned at <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn,_New_York" class="mw-redirect" title="Brooklyn, New York">Brooklyn, New York</a> 4 February 1947. She was used as a target and sunk off <a href="/wiki/New_London,_Connecticut" title="New London, Connecticut">New London, Connecticut</a>, 31 July 1947. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=USS_Chewink_(AM-39)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Public Domain" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/62/PD-icon.svg/12px-PD-icon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/62/PD-icon.svg/18px-PD-icon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/62/PD-icon.svg/24px-PD-icon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="196" data-file-height="196" /></span></span> <i>This article incorporates text from the <a href="/wiki/Public_domain" title="Public domain">public domain</a> </i><a href="/wiki/Dictionary_of_American_Naval_Fighting_Ships" title="Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships">Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships</a><i>. 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(AM-6)"><i>Cardinal</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Oriole_(AM-7)" title="USS Oriole (AM-7)"><i>Oriole</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Curlew_(AM-8)" title="USS Curlew (AM-8)"><i>Curlew</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Finch_(AM-9)" title="USS Finch (AM-9)"><i>Finch</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Heron_(AM-10)" title="USS Heron (AM-10)"><i>Heron</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Condor" title="USS Condor"><i>Condor</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>X</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Plover" title="USS Plover"><i>Plover</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>X</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Turkey_(AM-13)" title="USS Turkey (AM-13)"><i>Turkey</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Woodcock" title="USS Woodcock"><i>Woodcock</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Quail_(AM-15)" title="USS Quail (AM-15)"><i>Quail</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Partridge_(AM-16)" title="USS Partridge (AM-16)"><i>Partridge</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Eider" title="USS Eider"><i>Eider</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Thrush_(AM-18)" title="USS Thrush (AM-18)"><i>Thrush</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Avocet_(AVP-4)" title="USS Avocet (AVP-4)"><i>Avocet</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Bobolink_(AM-20)" title="USS Bobolink (AM-20)"><i>Bobolink</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Lark_(AM-21)" title="USS Lark (AM-21)"><i>Lark</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Widgeon_(AM-22)" title="USS Widgeon (AM-22)"><i>Widgeon</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Teal" title="USS Teal"><i>Teal</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Brant_(AM-24)" title="USS Brant (AM-24)"><i>Brant</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Kingfisher_(AM-25)" title="USS Kingfisher (AM-25)"><i>Kingfisher</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Rail_(AM-26)" title="USS Rail (AM-26)"><i>Rail</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Pelican_(AM-27)" title="USS Pelican (AM-27)"><i>Pelican</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Falcon_(AM-28)" title="USS Falcon 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<li><span class="nowrap">19 Mar: <a href="/wiki/HMS_Petunia_(K79)" title="HMS Petunia (K79)">ROCS <i>Fu Bo</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">22 Mar: <a href="/wiki/MV_Tyrronall" title="MV Tyrronall"><i>Empire Contamar</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">3 Apr: <a href="/wiki/SS_Gripfast" title="SS Gripfast"><i>Stancliffe</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">13 Apr <a href="/wiki/MS_Belpamela" title="MS Belpamela"><i>Belpamela</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">16 Apr: <a href="/wiki/Texas_City_disaster" title="Texas City disaster"><i>Grandcamp</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/Texas_City_disaster" title="Texas City disaster"><i>High Flyer</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/Texas_City_disaster" title="Texas City disaster"><i>Wilson B. Keene</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">18 Apr: <a href="/wiki/SS_Sir_Harvey_Adamson" title="SS Sir Harvey Adamson"><i>Sir Harvey Adamson</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">23 Apr: <a href="/wiki/SS_Samtampa" title="SS Samtampa"><i>Samtampa</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/HMS_Warspite_(03)" title="HMS Warspite (03)">HMS <i>Warspite</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">29 Apr: <a href="/wiki/HMS_Witherington_(D76)" title="HMS Witherington (D76)">HMS <i>Witherington</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">8 May: <a href="/wiki/Irish_patrol_vessel_Muirch%C3%BA" title="Irish patrol vessel Muirchú"><i>Muirchú</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">13 May: <a href="/wiki/HMS_Thames_(1885)" title="HMS Thames (1885)"><i>General Botha</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">17 May: <a href="/wiki/USS_Oklahoma_(BB-37)" title="USS Oklahoma (BB-37)">USS <i>Oklahoma</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">22 May: <a href="/wiki/USS_Mallard_(AM-44)" title="USS Mallard (AM-44)">USS <i>Mallard</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">31 May: <a href="/wiki/SMS_Berlin" title="SMS Berlin"><i>Berlin</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">4 Jun: <a href="/wiki/SS_Emperor" title="SS Emperor"><i>Emperor</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">17 Jul: <a href="/wiki/1947_Ramdas_ship_disaster" title="1947 Ramdas ship disaster"><i>Ramdas</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">21 Jul: <a href="/wiki/SS_Nascopie" title="SS Nascopie"><i>Nascopie</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">22 Jul: <a href="/wiki/German_cruiser_Deutschland" title="German cruiser Deutschland"><i>Lützow</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">31 Jul: <a class="mw-selflink selflink">USS <i>Chewink</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">16 Aug: <a href="/wiki/German_aircraft_carrier_Graf_Zeppelin" title="German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin"><i>Graf Zeppelin</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">18 Aug: <a href="/wiki/HNoMS_Heimdal_(1892)" title="HNoMS Heimdal (1892)"><i>Rovena</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">25 Aug: <a href="/wiki/USS_S-24" title="USS S-24">USS <i>S-24</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">6 Sep: <a href="/wiki/USS_Osborne_(DD-295)" class="mw-redirect" title="USS Osborne (DD-295)"><i>Matagalpa</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">13 Sep: <a href="/wiki/HMAS_Warrnambool_(J202)" title="HMAS Warrnambool (J202)">HMAS <i>Warrnambool</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">6 Oct: <a href="/wiki/USS_Crittenden" title="USS Crittenden">USS <i>Crittenden</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">11 Oct: <i><a href="/wiki/HMCS_Wolf" title="HMCS Wolf">Gulfstream</a></i></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">21 Oct: <a href="/wiki/German_submarine_U-190" title="German submarine U-190"><i>U-190</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">11 Nov: <a href="/wiki/MV_Aqueity_(1945)" title="MV Aqueity (1945)"><i>Aqueity</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">20 Nov: <a href="/wiki/German_submarine_U-234" title="German submarine U-234"><i>U-234</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">27 Nov: <a href="/wiki/SS_Clarksdale_Victory" title="SS Clarksdale Victory"><i>Clarksdale Victory</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">28 Nov: <a href="/wiki/German_submarine_U-530" title="German submarine U-530"><i>U-530</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">25 Dec: <a href="/wiki/SS_Park_Victory" title="SS Park Victory"><i>Park Victory</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">Unknown date: <a href="/wiki/USS_Ponaganset" title="USS Ponaganset"><i>Ponaganset</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/German_submarine_U-858" title="German submarine U-858"><i>U-858</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/German_submarine_U-889" title="German submarine U-889"><i>U-889</i></a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other incidents</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">1 Jan: <a href="/wiki/SS_Ocean_Victory" title="SS Ocean Victory"><i>Jan Steen</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">19 Jan: <a href="/wiki/MS_Wanganella" title="MS Wanganella"><i>Wanganella</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">21 Jan: <a href="/wiki/HMS_Bonaventure_(F139)" title="HMS Bonaventure (F139)">HMS <i>Bonaventure</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">17 Mar: <a href="/wiki/RFA_Wave_Laird" title="RFA Wave Laird">RFA <i>Wave Laird</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">28 Mar: <a href="/wiki/MV_Clio" title="MV Clio"><i>Clio</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">4 Apr: <a href="/wiki/USS_Ernest_G._Small" title="USS Ernest G. 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