USS Flamingo

USS Flamingo is a name used more than once by the U.S. Navy in naming its ships:

• USS Flamingo (AM-32) laid down 18 October 1917 by the New Jersey Drydock and Transportation Co., Elizabethport, New Jersey.
• USS Flamingo (AMc-22) laid down in 1940 as the fishing dragger Harriet N. Eldridge; Acquired by the U.S. Navy, 4 November 1940.
• USS Flamingo (AMS-11) laid down 11 May 1942 by Stadium Yacht Basin Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Flamingo and SS Flamingo (1909).

References

 This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.