| rdfs:comment | - The tug stood downriver from New Orleans on the following afternoon and reached her assigned section base at Burrwood, Louisiana, on the morning of the 3rd. That afternoon, she tried out her recently installed minesweeping gear and, on the 5th, swept the approaches to the southwest pass of the Mississippi River, in company with Barnett (SP-1149). During the remainder of August, Asher J. Hudson conducted five sweeps, in company with Barnett, of the important passes of the shipping lanes leading to the "Father of Waters."
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| abstract | - The tug stood downriver from New Orleans on the following afternoon and reached her assigned section base at Burrwood, Louisiana, on the morning of the 3rd. That afternoon, she tried out her recently installed minesweeping gear and, on the 5th, swept the approaches to the southwest pass of the Mississippi River, in company with Barnett (SP-1149). During the remainder of August, Asher J. Hudson conducted five sweeps, in company with Barnett, of the important passes of the shipping lanes leading to the "Father of Waters." Asher J. Hudson maintained this routine of sweeping and patrol operations through the armistice of 11 November 1918 that stilted the guns of World War I, interspersing her active periods with upkeep at the section base of Burrwood or the naval station at New Orleans. Detached from the "minesweeping flotilla" of the 8th Naval District on 6 December 1918, Asher J. Hudson was relegated to the simple duties of a district tug.
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