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Robin (AT[O]-140)
ex
 Robin (AT-140) (1942-1944)
 Robin (AM-3) (1920-1942)
 Robin (Minewsweeper No. 3) (1918 - 1920)


International Radio Call Sign:
Nan - Dog - Sugar - Love
NDSL


International Radio Call Sign:
Nan - Able - Negat - Queen (1939)
 NANQ


International Radio Call Sign:
George - Tare - Vice - Have (1919)
 GTVH
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - World War I Victory Medal (with Escort clasp)- American Defense Service Medal
Bottom Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal
Lapwing Class Minesweeper:
  • Contracted to Todd Shipyards, Brooklyn, NY
  • Built by Todd subsidiary, Tebo Yacht Basin Co. (YN 6)
  • Authorized, 04 March 1917
  • Ordered, 15 August 1917 (contract price $465,000)
  • Laid down, 04 March 1918
  • Launched, 17 June 1918
  • Commissioned USS Robin (Minesweeper No. 3), 29 August 1918
  • Designated AM-3, 17 July 1920
  • Reclassified as an Ocean Tug AT-140, 01 June 1942
  • Reclassified as an Ocean Tug (Old) AT(O)-140, 15 May 1944
  • Decommissioned at Long Beach, CA, 09 November 1945
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 28 November 1945
  • Sold and renamed Hyacinth, date unknown
  • Registered under British flag to Gill Amin & Co., Ltd, Bombay, renamed Margaret Rose (British ON 191150), May 1951
  • Final disposition, scrapped by Rajabali & Co., Bombay, April 1954
    Specifications:
  • Displacement 950 tons
    1932 - 1,350 tons
  • Length 187' 10" overall, 174' 0" waterline
  • Beam 35' 6'
  • Draft 9' 10"
    1932 - 13' 1"
  • Speed 14 knots
    1932 - 13.5 knots
  • Complement 78
    1932 - 85
  • Armament: Two 3"/50 mounts
    1932 - Two 3"/50 dual purpose mounts (assigned)
    1942 - Two 3"/50 dual purpose mounts, four single 20mm mounts
  • Propulsion: one Harlan and Hollingsworth 200psi saturated steam vertical triple expansion reciprocating steam engine, 1400shp
    Two Babcock and Wilcox header boilers
    one shaft
    Click on thumbnail
    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    Namesake
    Robin
    110200309    		 66k A North American thrush (Turdus migratorius) with a characteristic red breast. Tommy Trampp
    USS Robin (Minesweeper No. 3)
    Robin
    110200307    		 306k Photo from "Sweeping the North Sea Mine Barrage" by the U.S. Navy North Sea Minesweeping Detachment Joe Radigan
    USS Robin (AM-3)
    Robin
    110200304    		 165k Original photo: U.S. Navy photo from the Navy Recruitment Bureau, New York Original photo: Jon Burdett
    Replacement photo: Jim Kurrasch, Battleship Iowa, Pacific Battleship Center
    Robin
    110200308    		 97k Richard Miller, BMCS, USNR, Ret.
    Robin
    110200303    		 74k c. 1920.
    Charleston, SC
    USS Sacramento (PG 19), Robin, and USS Asheville (PG 21) in dry dock    		 Vance A. Adams
    Robin
    110200310    		 73k c. 1920s
    Guantanamo Bay, Cuba    		 David Wright
    Robin
    110200305    		 97k In dry dock at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, 11 March 1921.
    Photographed by Crosby, 324 First Street, Portsmouth, Virginia.
    Donation of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Museum, 1970
    Naval Historical Center photo NH 105197    		 Robert Hurst
    Robin
    110200306    		 108k At the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, 16 March 1921. The superstructure of S.S. West Ashawa is visible in the
    right background
    Photographed by Crosby, "Naval Photographer", 324 First Street, Portsmouth, Virginia
    Naval Historical Center photo NH 105196
    USS Robin (AT[O] 140)
    Robin
    110200301    		 51k Underway late in the war, possibly at Long Beach, California. S1/c Theodore Kemp
    Hickory Ridge, Arkansas
    Crew member 1944/1945
    Robin
    110200302    		 35k
    View the Robin (AM 3)
    DANFS history entry located at the Naval History and Heritage Command website
    Commanding Officers
    01LT Lewis Henry Cutting 29 August 1918 - 10 March 1920
    02LT Arthur Smith10 March 1920 - 10 August 1921
    03LT Walter Benjamin Buchanan10 August 1921 - 12 February 1923
    04LT Gregoire Francois Joseph Labelle 12 February 1923 - 05 June 1926
    05LT Walter Emerson Holden 05 June 1926 - 10 June 1929
    06LT Karl Charles Sommerfeld10 June 1929 - 04 May 1932
    07LT Gerald Laurence Schetky (USNA 1919)04 May 1932 - April 1933
    08LT Paul Ralph Heineman (USNA 1920)April 1933 - 01 June 1934
    09LCDR Francis James Mee (USNA 1922)01 June 1934 - December 1935
    10LT John Katz Wells (USNA 1926) December 1935 - April 1938
    11LT Arthur Adolph Griese (USNA 1924)April 1938 - October 1938
    12LT/LCDR Peter James Neimo (USNA 1922) October 1938 - 10 September 1939
    13LCDR Edwin Vernon Raines (USNA 1922) 10 September 1939 - 10 November 1941
    14LT David Glass Greenlee, Jr. (USNA 1925)10 November 1941 - March 1942
    15LT/LCDR John Joseph Branson (USNA 1927) March 1942 - 20 July 1942
    15ENS Bernard Scott Umbarger (USNA 1943) 20 July 1942 - 01 November 1942
    16ENS Anthony Peter Woronick 01 November 1942 - ????
    17LT(JG) Ellsworth Charles Avery (February 1943 - November 1944)
    18LCDR Amie Joseph Roy DM, USNR21 January 1945 - 09 November 1945
    Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler, Joe Radigan, Ron Reeves and Dave Wright
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors
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