USS Pigeon (ASR-6)
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The first USS Pigeon was a Lapwing-class minesweeper of the United States Navy. She was later converted to a submarine rescue ship. She was named for the avian ambassador, the pigeon.
USS Pigeon (ASR-6) anchored in Cam Ranh Bay on the coast of French Indochina in July 1939.
Pigeon in Chinese waters, c. the later 1920s, showing modifications made to fit her as a gunboat for use on the Yangtze River.
USS Pigeon grounded on the coast of China after a September 1939 typhoon
Submarine rescue ship
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A submarine rescue ship is a surface support ship for submarine rescue and deep-sea salvage operations. Methods employed include the McCann Rescue Chamber, deep-submergence rescue vehicles and diving
USS Pigeon (ASR-6)
…cruise with Asiatic Fleet submarines along the China coast until returning to Manila on 11 September 1929. The following day, she was reclassified a submarine rescue vessel and redesignated ASR-6. As a submarine rescue vessel, Pigeon's primary mission was to aid and salvage submarines in distress. She had a complement of…
USS Pigeon, submarine rescue ship
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