sentences:  "Flamingo" fitted out at the New York Navy Yard in Brooklyn, New York, and later shifted to Tompkinsville, Staten Island, New York, on 29 March 1919.The minesweeper performed various towing jobs and carried stores locally in the 3rd Naval District into the spring of 1919.On 10 April 1919, she suffered damage in a collision with an unnamed Panama Railroad Company tug, and she underwent repairs at Port Richmond, Staten Island.