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Seabury">Gas Engine & Power Co. and Charles L. Seabury</a>, <a href="/wiki/Morris_Heights,_New_York" class="mw-redirect" title="Morris Heights, New York">Morris Heights, New York</a></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Laid down</td><td>14 November 1917</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Launched</td><td>14 November 1918</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Commissioned</td><td>7 January 1919, as Minesweeper No. 29</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Decommissioned</td><td>12 December 1920</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Reclassified</td><td>AM-29, 17 July 1920</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Fate</td><td>Transferred to <a href="/wiki/United_States_Coast_and_Geodetic_Survey" title="United States Coast and Geodetic Survey">U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey</a> 7 April 1922</td></tr> <tr><th height="30" colspan="2" 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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>72</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Armament</td><td><ul style="list-style:none; margin:0;"> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">2 × <a href="/wiki/3%22/50_caliber_gun" class="mw-redirect" title="3"/50 caliber gun">3 in (76 mm)</a> caliber guns</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">2 × machine guns</li> </ul></td></tr> </tbody></table> <p><b>USS <i>Osprey</i> (AM-29)</b> was an <a href="/wiki/Lapwing-class_minesweeper" title="Lapwing-class minesweeper"><i>Lapwing</i>-class</a> <a href="/wiki/Minesweeper" title="Minesweeper">minesweeper</a> commissioned by the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">United States Navy</a> for service in <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a>. She was responsible for removing mines from harbors, and, in her role as rescue and salvage ship, she was responsible for coming to the aid of stricken vessels. After service in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Coast_and_Geodetic_Survey" title="United States Coast and Geodetic Survey">United States Coast and Geodetic Survey</a> as the <a href="/wiki/Survey_ship" class="mw-redirect" title="Survey ship">survey ship</a> <b>USC&GS <i>Pioneer</i></b>, she returned to the U.S. Navy in 1941 as the <a href="/wiki/Salvage_ship" class="mw-redirect" title="Salvage ship">salvage ship</a> <b>USS <i>Crusader</i> (ARS-2)</b>, serving as such through the end of <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Construction_and_commissioning">Construction and commissioning</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=USS_Osprey_(AM-29)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Construction and commissioning"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Osprey</i> was <a href="/wiki/Keel-laying" class="mw-redirect" title="Keel-laying">laid down</a> on 14 November 1917 by the <a href="/wiki/Gas_Engine_and_Power_Company_%26_Charles_L._Seabury_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="Gas Engine and Power Company & Charles L. Seabury Company">Gas Engine and Power Company & Charles L. Seabury Company</a> at <a href="/wiki/Morris_Heights,_Bronx" title="Morris Heights, Bronx">Morris Heights</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bronx" class="mw-redirect" title="Bronx">Bronx</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_York_(state)" title="New York (state)">New York</a>. She was <a href="/wiki/Ceremonial_ship_launching" title="Ceremonial ship launching">launched</a> on 14 November 1918, <a href="/wiki/Ship_sponsor" title="Ship sponsor">sponsored</a> by Mrs. J. J. Amory, and <a href="/wiki/Ship_commissioning" title="Ship commissioning">commissioned</a> on 7 January 1919 as <b>USS <i>Osprey</i> (Minesweeper No. 29)</b>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Service_history">Service history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=USS_Osprey_(AM-29)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Service history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="European_operations">European operations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=USS_Osprey_(AM-29)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: European operations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After fitting out at <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>, <i>Osprey</i> departed <a href="/wiki/Boston" title="Boston">Boston</a>, <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a>, with five other ships on 6 April 1919 for <a href="/wiki/Inverness" title="Inverness">Inverness</a>, <a href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scotland</a>, arriving 20 April 1919 to join the <a href="/wiki/North_Sea" title="North Sea">North Sea</a> <a href="/wiki/Minesweeping" title="Minesweeping">Minesweeping</a> Force. Basing operations at <a href="/wiki/Kirkwall" title="Kirkwall">Kirkwall</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Orkney_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="Orkney Islands">Orkney Islands</a>, she aided in sweeping the <a href="/wiki/North_Sea_Mine_Barrage" title="North Sea Mine Barrage">North Sea Mine Barrage</a> during the summer of 1919, departing Kirkwall on 1 October 1919 for <a href="/wiki/HMNB_Devonport" title="HMNB Devonport">Devonport</a>, <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a>. She departed <a href="/wiki/Brest,_France" title="Brest, France">Brest</a>, <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a>, for <a href="/wiki/Lisbon" title="Lisbon">Lisbon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Portugal" title="Portugal">Portugal</a>, on 15 October 1919 with the <a href="/wiki/Submarine_chaser" title="Submarine chaser">submarine chaser</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=USS_SC-110&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="USS SC-110 (page does not exist)">USS <i>SC-110</i></a> in tow. She departed Lisbon on 24 October 1919 for the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>, arriving at <a href="/wiki/Staten_Island" title="Staten Island">Staten Island</a>, New York, on 17 November 1919. On 4 December 1919 she proceeded to the <a href="/wiki/Portsmouth_Navy_Yard" class="mw-redirect" title="Portsmouth Navy Yard">Portsmouth Navy Yard</a> in <a href="/wiki/Kittery,_Maine" title="Kittery, Maine">Kittery</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maine" title="Maine">Maine</a>, where she remained <a href="/wiki/In_ordinary" title="In ordinary">in ordinary</a> — becoming <b>USS <i>Osprey</i> (AM-29)</b> when the U.S. Navy adopted its modern <a href="/wiki/Hull_classification_symbol" title="Hull classification symbol">hull-number system</a> on 17 July 1920 — until she was <a href="/wiki/Ship_decommissioning" class="mw-redirect" title="Ship decommissioning">decommissioned</a> 12 December 1920. She subsequently steamed to Boston. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="United_States_Coast_and_Geodetic_Survey_service">United States Coast and Geodetic Survey service</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=USS_Osprey_(AM-29)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: United States Coast and Geodetic Survey service"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/USC%26GS_Pioneer_(1922)" class="mw-redirect" title="USC&GS Pioneer (1922)">USC&GS Pioneer (1922)</a></div> <p>The ship was transferred to the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Coast_and_Geodetic_Survey" title="United States Coast and Geodetic Survey">United States Coast and Geodetic Survey</a> in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Commerce" title="United States Department of Commerce">United States Department of Commerce</a> on 7 April 1922, at which time she was renamed <b>USC&GS <i>Pioneer</i></b>. She operated as a <a href="/wiki/Survey_ship" class="mw-redirect" title="Survey ship">survey ship</a> in the Coast and Geodetic Survey until 1941. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Return_to_the_U.S._Navy">Return to the U.S. Navy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=USS_Osprey_(AM-29)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Return to the U.S. Navy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The ship was transferred back to the U.S. Navy and commissioned on 17 September 1941 as the <a href="/wiki/Salvage_ship" class="mw-redirect" title="Salvage ship">salvage ship</a> <b>USS <i>Crusader</i> (ARS-2)</b>. She operated in the <a href="/wiki/15th_Naval_District" class="mw-redirect" title="15th Naval District">15th Naval District</a>, headquartered at <a href="/wiki/Balboa,_Panama" title="Balboa, Panama">Balboa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Panama_Canal_Zone" title="Panama Canal Zone">Panama Canal Zone</a>, throughout <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, which ended in August 1945. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Decommissioning_and_disposal">Decommissioning and disposal</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=USS_Osprey_(AM-29)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Decommissioning and disposal"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After <a href="/wiki/Ship_decommissioning" class="mw-redirect" title="Ship decommissioning">decommissioning</a>, <i>Crusader</i> was transferred to the <a href="/wiki/Maritime_Commission" class="mw-redirect" title="Maritime Commission">Maritime Commission</a> on 13 February 1947. She was sold for scrapping in 1952. </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_Osprey_(AM-29)&action=edit&section=7" 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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Owl (AM-2)"><i>Owl</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Robin_(AM-3)" title="USS Robin (AM-3)"><i>Robin</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Swallow_(AM-4)" title="USS Swallow (AM-4)"><i>Swallow</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Tanager_(AM-5)" title="USS Tanager (AM-5)"><i>Tanager</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Cardinal_(AM-6)" title="USS Cardinal (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 (AM-28)"><i>Falcon</i></a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink"><i>Osprey</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Seagull_(AM-30)" title="USS Seagull (AM-30)"><i>Seagull</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Tern_(AM-31)" title="USS Tern (AM-31)"><i>Tern</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Viking_(ARS-1)" title="USS Viking (ARS-1)"><i>Flamingo</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Penguin_(AM-33)" title="USS Penguin (AM-33)"><i>Penguin</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Swan_(AM-34)" title="USS Swan (AM-34)"><i>Swan</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Whippoorwill_(AM-35)" title="USS Whippoorwill (AM-35)"><i>Whippoorwill</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Bittern_(AM-36)" title="USS Bittern (AM-36)"><i>Bittern</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Sanderling_(AM-37)" title="USS Sanderling (AM-37)"><i>Sanderling</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Auk_(AM-38)" title="USS Auk (AM-38)"><i>Auk</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Chewink_(AM-39)" title="USS Chewink (AM-39)"><i>Chewink</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Cormorant_(AM-40)" title="USS Cormorant (AM-40)"><i>Cormorant</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Gannet_(AM-41)" title="USS Gannet (AM-41)"><i>Gannet</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Grebe" title="USS Grebe"><i>Grebe</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Mallard_(AM-44)" title="USS Mallard (AM-44)"><i>Mallard</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Ortolan_(AM-45)" title="USS Ortolan (AM-45)"><i>Ortolan</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Peacock_(AM-46)" title="USS Peacock (AM-46)"><i>Peacock</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Pigeon_(ASR-6)" title="USS Pigeon (ASR-6)"><i>Pigeon</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Redwing_(AM-48)" title="USS Redwing (AM-48)"><i>Redwing</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Sandpiper_(AM-51)" title="USS Sandpiper (AM-51)"><i>Sandpiper</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Vireo_(AM-52)" title="USS Vireo (AM-52)"><i>Vireo</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Warbler_(AM-53)" title="USS Warbler (AM-53)"><i>Warbler</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Willet" title="USS Willet"><i>Willet</i></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" 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navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/USS_Auk_(AM-38)" title="USS Auk (AM-38)"><i>Discoverer</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Viking_(ARS-1)" title="USS Viking (ARS-1)"><i>Guide</i></a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink"><i>Pioneer</i></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Preceded by: <i>None</i></li> <li>Followed by: <a href="/wiki/Raven-class_minesweeper" title="Raven-class minesweeper"><i>Raven</i> class</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <dl><dt>X</dt> <dd>Cancelled</dd></dl> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow hlist" colspan="2" style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_mine_warfare_vessels_of_the_United_States_Navy" title="List of 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