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Tanager (AM 5)

Call sign (1939):
Negat - Afirm - Baker - Sail

ex-Minesweeper No. 5

Call sign (1919):
George - Tare - Vice - Mike

Tanager sank 4 May 1942

Lapwing Class Minesweeper:

Laid down 28 September 1917 by the Staten Island Shipbuilding Co., New York, NY

Launched 2 March 1918

Commissioned USS Tanager, Minesweeper No. 5, 28 June 1918

Designated AM-5, 17 July 1920

Struck by Japanese shore batteries on Bataan 4 May 1942 and sank off Corregidor

Struck from the Naval Register 8 May 1942.

Specifications:

Displacement 840 t.

Length 187' 10"

Beam 28' 8"

Draft 10' 3"

Speed 14 kts.

Complement 85

Armament: Two 3" guns

Propulsion: One Harlan and Hollingsworth vertical triple expansion steam engine, one shaft.

Click on thumbnail for full size image	Size	Image Description	Source
USS Tanager (Minesweeper No. 5)
	60k	Namesake: Tanager - Any of the numerous American, passerine birds. The brightly colored males are unmusical and inhabit woodlands	Jim Kurrasch, Battleship Iowa, Pacific Battleship Center
	109k	Conducting sweep operations in the North Sea, July 1919 U.S. Navy photo NH 471943	Naval Historical Center
	188k	In port during North Sea Mine Barrage clearance operations, circa mid-1919. She wears "X" as an identification mark on her bow and smokestack. Another vessel, part of a group of ships partially visible in the right distance, also has an "X" painted on her bow Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2010 Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 107315	Robert Hurst
	459k	Ship's Officers and Crew, photographed on board in a North Sea port, during the 1919 North Sea mine barrage clearance operation
	139k	In dry dock at Lisbon, Portugal in October 1919, while en route to the U.S. following North Sea Mine Barrage clearance operations Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2010 Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 107314
	196k	Photo from "Sweeping the North Sea Mine Barrage" by the U.S. Navy North Sea Minesweeping Detachment
110200506	1.18k	Passing a sweep line between Tanager (Minesweeper No. 5) and a sister minesweeper, circa 1918-1919	Naval History & Heritage Command photo # S-590.01 via history.navy.mil
USS Tanager (AM 5)
	157k		Jim Kurrasch, Battleship Iowa, Pacific Battleship Center
	250k	In port, during a scientific expedition from Honolulu to Wake Island and other Pacific Ocean islands, circa 1923	Robert Hurst

Commanding Officers
01	LTJG Michael Higgins, USN - Awarded the Navy Cross (1919)	28 June 1918 - 15 July 1919
02	Machinist(T) Roy C. Littlefield, USN	1918 (Temporary)
03	LT Michael Joseph Wilkinson, USN - Awarded the Navy Cross (1919)	15 July 1919
04	LT Stephen Ingham, USN	18 March 1920 - 7 June 1924
05	LT Donald Brown McClary, USN	7 June 1924
06	LT Laurence Bennett, USN	12 November 1927 - 24 September 1930
07	LT Clyde Morrison, USN	24 September 1930
08	LT Thomas Butler Birtley, Jr., USN	30 November 1931
09	LT William Atherton Kanakanui, USN	30 December 1933
10	LT Paul Cyril Wirtz, USN	9 October 1936
11	LT Edward Raymond Joseph Griffin, USN - Awarded the Navy Cross (1941)	10 February 1938
12	LCDR Egbert Adolph Roth, USN - USNA Class of 1929 Awarded the Navy Cross (Posthumously)-(1942)	14 June 1939 - 4 May 1942

Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler, Ron Reeves and Joe Radigan

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