sentences:  "Flamingo" remained inactive for almost a year a half before an executive order of 25 March 1922 authorized the Navy to transfer the vessel to the United States Department of Commerce for use by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, and she accordingly was decommissioned on 5 May 1922.Turned over to the Coast and Geodetic Survey at Portsmouth Navy Yard on 23 January 1923 for use as a survey vessel , the ship was renamed USC&GS "Guide", first Coast and Geodetic Survey ship of the name, on 1 March 1923.She and the survey ships USC&GS "Discoverer" and USC&GS "Pioneer", also former Navy minesweepers, were known as the "Bird Boats" in the Coast and Geodetic Survey because all had been named after birds – "Guide" had been USS "Flamingo", "Discoverer" had been , and "Pioneer" had been – while in Navy service.