sentences:  The first USS "Flamingo" (AM-32), a "Lapwing"-class minesweeper, was laid down on 18 October 1917 by the New Jersey Drydock and Transportation Company at Elizabethport, New Jersey.She was launched on 24 August 1918 and commissioned as USS "Flamingo", Minesweeper No.32, on 12 February 1919.