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Sanderling (Minesweeper No. 37) |
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21k | Namesake: Sanderling - A small sandpiper | Tommy Trampp Photo added 8 March 2020 |
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312k | 2 September 1918 Launching at Tebo Yacht Basin, Brooklyn National Archives photo 45511596 |
Michael Mohl | ||
USS Sanderling (Minesweeper No. 37) |
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115k | At anchor with SC-95 moored alongside | The Sub Chaser Archives |
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110k | While taking part in clearing the North Sea mine barrage, "The fleet put in [to] Stavanger, a bustling town in Norway, made prosperous by the war." (quoted from the original 1919 vintage caption). USS Woodcock (Minesweeper No. 14) is in the foreground. In the left background are (from front to rear): USS SC-356, USS SC-40, USS Eider (Minesweeper No. 17), Sanderling - probable identification, USS Auk (Minesweeper No. 38) and an unidentified minesweeper. U. S. Navy photo from the Navy Recruitment Bureau, New York Naval Historical Center photo NH 99789 |
Naval Historical Center | ||
291k | Steaming through heavy seas during North Sea Mine Barrage clearance operations, circa mid-1919. This "Bird Boat" wears a "V" identification mark on her bow, which means that she is Sanderling Donation of Dr. Mark Kukikowski, 2010 Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 107317 |
Robert Hurst | ||
334k | Photo from "Sweeping the North Sea Mine Barrage" by the U.S. Navy North Sea Minesweeping Detachment | Joe Radigan | ||
USS Sanderling (AM 37) |
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74k | USS R-5 (SS-82) underway in Pearl Harbor, circa 1923-1930. USS Baltimore (CM-1) is moored in the background, with Sanderling tied up alongside. Both of these ships were then out of commission Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1974. US Navy Photo NH 79747 |
Naval Historical Center |
Commanding Officers | ||
01 | LT Stanley Danielak, USN - Awarded the Navy Cross (1919) Retired as Lieutenant | 4 December 1918 |
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