Allied Warships

USS Swan (AVP 7)

Minesweeper of the Lapwing class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Minesweeper
Class	Lapwing
Pennant	AVP 7
Mod	Seaplane tender
Built by	Alabama Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Co. (Mobile, Alabama, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	10 Dec 1917
Launched	4 Jul 1918
Commissioned	31 Jan 1919
End service	13 Dec 1945
History	Decommissioned on 23 May 1922 Recommissioned on 23 June 1923 Decommissioned on 21 December 1933 Recommissioned on 2 April 1934 Redesignated as small seaplane tender AVP-7 on 22 January 1936 Decommissioned on 13 December 1945 Stricken on 8 January 1946

Commands listed for USS Swan (AVP 7)

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	Commander	From	To
1	John Francis Greenslade, USN	28 May 1938	mid 1940
2	Lt. Alfred Russell Truslow, Jr., USN	mid 1940	12 Aug 1941
3	Lt. Finley Elliott Hall, USN	12 Aug 1941	Sep 1942
4	Lt. Cecil Kelly Harper, USN	Sep 1942	8 Mar 1943
5	Charles E. Napier, USN	8 Mar 1943	Jul 1944
6	Glenn H. Fauss, USNR	Jul 1944	Jul 1945
7	Henry W. Sawyer, USNR	Jul 1945	13 Dec 1945

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