USS Kingfisher (AM-25/AT-135/ATO-135) was an Lapwing-class minesweeper acquired by the United States Navy for the dangerous task of removing mines from...

August 1861. USS Kingfisher (SP-76), a motor launch, was built in 1916 by George Lawley & Sons, Neponset, Massachusetts. USS Kingfisher (AM-25) launched...

ATO-168 USS Widgeon (AM-22), later ASR-1 USS Teal (AM-23), later AVP-5 USS Brant (AM-24), later ARS-32 USS Kingfisher (AM-25), later AT-135, ATO-135 USS Rail (AM-26)...

on different occasions, Oriole, USS Swan (AM-34) (Minesweeper No. 34), or USS Kingfisher (AM-25) (Minesweeper No. 25). Returning to Kirkwall on 29 May...

scuttled by her escort ships. On September 12, 1943, a US Navy Vought OS2U Kingfisher No. 2283 with the Scouting Squadron Sixty-One, VS-61, was doing engine...

(AT-134), ex-AM-43, grounded 6 December 1942 USS Kingfisher (AT-135), ex-AM-25 USS Oriole (AT-136), ex-AM-7 USS Owl (AT-137), ex-AM-2 USS Partridge (AT-138)...

Philip (1845) USS Kingbird (AMc-56/IX-176, AMS-194/MSC-194) USS Kingfish (SS-234) USS Kingfisher (1861, SP-76, AM-25/AT-135/ATO-135, MHC-56) USS Kingman (AKS-18/APB-47)...

USS Turkey (AM-13) was a Lapwing-class minesweeper the United States Navy, thus named after the bird, not after the country which in 1917 was an enemy...

USS Tang (SS-306) was a Balao-class submarine of World War II, the first ship of the United States Navy to bear the name Tang. She was built and launched...

minesweeper USS Eagle (AM-132) before becoming USS Captor (PYc-40), SS Evelyn and Carolyn, identical cargo vessels that became USS Asterion (AK-100) and USS Atik (AK-101)...

1943 by the New Zealand HMNZS Tui and United States Navy Kingfisher floatplanes, off Noumea. USS Lake Pepin / SS Samoa had eight sister ships built as Lake...

USS Missouri (BB-63) is an Iowa-class battleship built for the United States Navy (USN) in the 1940s and is a museum ship. Completed in 1944, she is the...

USS Antelope was a stern-wheel steamer acquired by the Union Navy for service during the American Civil War. Originally Lavinia Logan—a charter vessel...

from Melbourne to Callao in ballast with a total of 25 crew. She struck the Auckland Islands at 2 a.m. on 11 May 1864, broke up and was totally destroyed...

France, where she was overhauled. Shortly after, a Union sloop-of-war, USS Kearsarge, arrived; and on June 19, the Battle of Cherbourg commenced outside...

CSS Equator, where she engaged six Federal blockaders, including USS Britannia and USS Nansemond, off New Inlet. The plan was ill-conceived, as the Richmond-class...

sixty-one day cruise. Unknown to the Confederates, the Union sloop-of-war USS Wachusett was nearby, under Commander Napoleon Collins. Wachusett launched...

USS Erie (PG-50) was the lead ship of the Erie-class gunboats of the United States Navy. Erie was the second US Navy ship to bear the name. The first...

defense, including: USS Richard B. Anderson USS Cochrane USS Kirk USS Gurke USS Rowan USS Cook USS Bausell The USS Enterprise and USS Coral Sea carrier...

damage. 30 May – A U.S. Navy OS2U-2 Kingfisher floatplane dropped a depth charge on the U.S. Navy submarine USS R-18 (SS-95) as R-18 crash-dived in the...

The Lapwing-class minesweeper, often called the Bird class, was an early "AM-type" oceangoing minesweeper of the United States Navy. Seven ships of the...

schooner called La Criolla had been captured by the Union sidewheeler USS Bienville some 25 miles (40 km) southeast of the Charleston, South Carolina, bar and...

tender USS Niagara (PG-52), PT Boat tender USS Willoughby (AGP-9), PT Boat tender USS Heron (AM-10), PT Boat tender USS Alecto, PT Boat tender USS Vestal...

Mars unnamed modular Mars cycler spacecraft tethered to launch vehicle Kingfisher to create artificial gravity for the fictional 2-year Mars mission MTS-42...

floatplane, also built by Martin as M2O OS2N Kingfisher - observation floatplane, variant of the Vought OS2U Kingfisher produced by NAF PBN Nomad - patrol flying...

the fire in her boilers. All attempts to save her failed. At around 5:00 a.m., the passengers and crew began abandoning Lac La Belle. She sank about 20...

into Queen Charlotte Sound for shelter the ship hit a submerged rock at 7 am and began taking on water. Kreef beached the ship in the Sounds' northernmost...

fire broke out on board about 45 mi. south of Pernambuco, Aug. 2, 1861, at 1 AM, as the ship was en route from Sunderland, England under Capt. Wilson, bound...

firefighting, especially in harbors. Some minesweepers like USS Vireo, USS Lark and USS Kingfisher were converted to ocean tugs for the war. Named for small...

provide base security and on 25 May the 3rd Battalion, 9th Marines was deployed to the base.: 158–9  Seven crewmen from the USS Nitro jumped overboard as...