sentences:  USS Eider (AM-17)
  
  USS "Eider" (AM-17) was a of the United States Navy.Laid down on 25 September 1917 by the Pusey and Jones Company of Wilmington, Delaware, "Eider" was launched on 26 May 1918, and commissioned as USS "Eider", (Minesweeper No.17) on 23 January 1919, LT Arthur E. Freed in command.