High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Penguin (AM-33) was a Lapwing-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. Penguin was named by the U.S. Navy after the penguin, a bird of the Southern hemisphere. Penguin was laid down 17 November 1917 at the New Jersey Dry Dock and Transportation Co., Elizabethport, New Jersey; launched 12 June 1918; and commissioned 21 November 1918, Lt. (jg) Edgar T. Hammond in command.

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