Allied Warships

USS Avocet (AVP 4)

Minesweeper of the Lapwing class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Minesweeper
Class	Lapwing
Pennant	AVP 4
Mod	Seaplane tender
Built by	Baltimore Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Co. (Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	13 Sep 1917
Launched	9 Mar 1918
Commissioned	17 Sep 1918
End service	10 Dec 1945
History	Decommissioned on 3 April 1922 Recommissioned on 8 September 1925 Redesignated as a small seaplane tender AVP-4 on 22 January 1936 Decommissioned on 10 December 1945 Sold to be broken up for scrap on 12 December 1946

Commands listed for USS Avocet (AVP 4)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Joseph Malcolm Carson, USN	6 Jul 1938	1 Jul 1940
2	Lt. Robert Ellington Dixon, USN	1 Jul 1940	mid 1941
3	Lt. William Crawford Jonson, Jr., USN	mid 1941	19 Aug 1942
4	Gus Otis Davis, USN	19 Aug 1942	7 Apr 1943
5	George Foster Keene, USN	7 Apr 1943	14 Dec 1943
6	Edward Joseph Terrill, USNR	14 Dec 1943	18 Mar 1945
7	Henry L. Oakes, Jr., USNR	18 Mar 1945	10 Dec 1945

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