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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Ordered | as Minesweeper No. 52 |
| Laid down | 20 November 1918 |
| Launched | 26 May 1919 |
| Commissioned | 16 October 1919 |
| Decommissioned | 18 April 1946 |
| Stricken | 8 May 1946 |
| Fate | Transferred from the Maritime Commission for disposal on 4 February 1947 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement | 840 tons |
| Length | 187 ft 10 in (57.25 m) |
| Beam | 35 ft 5 in (10.80 m) |
| Draught | 8 ft 10 in (2.69 m) |
| Propulsion | Two Babcock & Wilcox header boilers, one 1,400shp Chester Shipbuilding 200psi saturated steam vertical triple expansion reciprocating engine, one shaft. |
| Speed | 15 knots |
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| Armament | two 3 in (76 mm) guns |
USS Vireo (AM-52) was a U.S. Navy Lapwing-class minesweeper, No. 52, reclassified on 1 June 1942 as a fleet tug. The bulk of her combat career was served in this capacity.