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 |
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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