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Allied Warships

USS Owl (AM 2)

Minesweeper of the Lapwing class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeMinesweeper
ClassLapwing 
PennantAM 2 
Built byTodd Shipyard Co. (New.York, New York, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down25 Oct, 1917 
Launched4 Mar, 1918 
Commissioned11 Jul, 1918 
End service26 Jul, 1946 
Loss position
 
HistoryReclassified ocean tug AT-137 on 1 June 1942
Reclassified ocean tug old ATO-137 on 15 May 1944
Decommissioned on 26 July 1946
Sold to be broken up for scrap on 27 June 1947 

Noteable events involving Owl include:

5 May, 1942
The Canadian passenger ship Lady Drake is torpedoed and sunk about 90 miles north of Bermuda in position 35º43'N, 64º43'W by the German submarine U-106. The US minesweeper USS Owl later picks up 256 survivors.


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