USS Falcon (ASR-2)
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| Name: | USS Falcon |
| Builder: | Gas Engine and Power Co., and C. L. Seabury Co., Morris Heights, New York |
| Launched: | 7 September 1918 |
| Commissioned: | 12 November 1918, as Minesweeper No.28 |
| Decommissioned: | 18 June 1946 |
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| Fate: | Sold, 12 March 1947 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Lapwing-class minesweeper |
| Displacement: | 950 long tons (965 t) |
| Length: | 187 ft 10 in (57.25 m) |
| Beam: | 35 ft 6 in (10.82 m) |
| Draft: | 12 ft 7 in (3.84 m) |
| Speed: | 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
| Armament: | 2 × 3 in (76 mm) guns |
The third USS Falcon, (AM-28/ASR-2) was a Lapwing-class minesweeper in the United States Navy. She later became a submarine rescue ship.
Falcon was launched 7 September 1918 by Gas Engine and Power Co., and C. L. Seabury Co., Morris Heights, New York; sponsored by Mrs. W. J. Parslow; and commissioned 12 November 1918, Lieutenant B. E. Rigg in command. She was reclassified ASR-2 on 12 September 1929.
Originally commanded by Sam Trohman, from December 1918 to May 1919, Falcon served on temporary duty in the 4th Naval District as a lightship. After towing targets and various craft along the U.S. East Coast, an occupation with salvage duty which was to be her major employment for many years, she sailed from New York on 8 August 1919 for Kirkwall, Orkney Islands, Scotland. For two months she aided in clearing the North Sea of the vast number of mines laid there in World War I, returning to Charleston, South Carolina, 28 November 1919.
Falcon made a second voyage to European waters between March and August 1920, visiting Rosyth, Scotland, and Brest, France, and returning by way of the Azores with a captured German submarine in tow for the Panama Canal Zone. Back at Hampton Roads 18 October 1920, she returned to towing, salvage, and transport duty along the east coast. After conducting salvage operations on USS S-5 through the summer of 1921, she was assigned permanently to submarine salvage work, based at New London, Connecticut. She continued to perform occasional towing duty, and from time to time sailed to the Caribbean on both salvage and towing duty.
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