USS "Flamingo" is a name used more than once by the U.S. Navy in naming its ships:
* USS "Flamingo" (AM-32) laid down 18 October 1917 by the New Jersey Drydock and Transportation Co., Elizabethport, New Jersey.
* USS "Flamingo" (AMc-22) laid down in 1940 as the fishing dragger Harriet N. Eldridge; Acquired by the U.S. Navy, 4 November 1940.
* USS "Flamingo" (AMS-11) laid down 11 May 1942 by Stadium Yacht Basin Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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