USS Tanager (AM-385)

USCGC Tanager photographed in 1964
History
United States
Name	USS Tanager
Builder	American Ship Building Company, Lorain, Ohio
Laid down	29 March 1944
Launched	9 December 1944
Commissioned	28 July 1945
Decommissioned	10 December 1954
Reclassified	MSF-385, 7 February 1955
Stricken	1 November 1963
Fate	Transferred to the U.S. Coast Guard, 16 July 1964
Name	USCGS Tanager (WTR-885)
Acquired	16 July 1964
Decommissioned	1 February 1972
Fate	Sold for scrap, 15 November 1972
General characteristics
Class and type	Auk-class minesweeper
Displacement	890 long tons (904 t)
Length	221 ft 3 in (67.44 m)
Beam	32 ft (9.8 m)
Draft	10 ft 9 in (3.28 m)
Speed	18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Complement	100 officers and enlisted
Armament	1 × 3"/50 caliber gun 2 × 40 mm guns 2 × 20 mm guns 2 × Depth charge tracks

USS Tanager (AM-385) was an Auk-class minesweeper acquired by the United States Navy for the dangerous task of removing mines from minefields laid in the water to prevent ships from passing.

Tanager was named after the tanager, any of the numerous American, passerine birds. The brightly colored males are unmusical and inhabit woodlands.

Tanager, a minesweeper and the second United States Navy warship with that name, was laid down at Lorain, Ohio, on 29 March 1944 by the American Ship Building Company; launched on 9 December 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Thomas Slingluff; and commissioned on 28 July 1945.