USS Sandpiper (AM-51) was a Lapwing-class minesweeper. Laid down on 15 November 1918 at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and launched...
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States Navy have been named USS Sandpiper, after the sandpiper, a shore bird related to the plovers and snipes. USS Sandpiper (AM-51) laid down on 15 November...
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4 December 1918 USS Sandpiper (AM-51), later AVP-9 USS Vireo (AM-52), later AT-144 USS Warbler (AM-53), later ARS-11 USS Willet (AM-54), later ARS-12...
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officer of the minesweeper/aircraft tender USS Sandpiper (AM-51) in 1933. While he was in command, Sandpiper operated in the waters of the Territory of...
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List of United States Navy ships: S (redirect from USS Somerset (1917))
USS Sanderling (AM-37, AMc-11, AM-410, AMS-35/AMCU-49/MHC-49) USS Sanders (DE-40, DE-273) USS Sandoval (1895, APA-194/LPA-194) USS Sandpiper (AM-51/AVP-9...
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former AM-41, torpedoed 7 June 1942, 16 killed USS Sandpiper (AVP-9), former AM-51 Clemson-class USS Childs (AVP-14), former DD-241, later AVD-1 USS Williamson...
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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...
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Aircraft in fiction (section P-51 Mustang)
later episodes. A Cessna 402, operated by the fictional small airline Sandpiper Air at Tom Nevers Field airport, Nantucket, was featured in the NBC-TV...
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northern rough-winged swallows, and belted kingfishers. Killdeer and spotted sandpipers can be seen foraging for insects along the gravel bars. Other species...
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native and migratory shorebirds can be seen year-round. Species include sandpipers, plovers, terns, gulls, herons, egrets, hawks, ospreys, cormorants, white...
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Louie Louie (category The Sandpipers songs)
of the Kinks' early work". After their No. 1 hit "Guantanamera", the Sandpipers, with producer Tommy LiPuma and arranger Nick DeCaro, "cleverly revived"...
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prey on them. Coastal zones are habitat for ruddy turnstones and least sandpipers. Gulls and terns include royal terns, laughing gulls and ring-billed gulls...
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