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The PCS-1376 class of coastal minesweepers were originally Patrol Craft Sweepers (PCS) which lacked minesweeping gear. They were built on 134-foot YMS-1-class minesweeper hulls and then converted into sonar school ships or back into minesweepers. [4] USS Medrick (AMc-203), ex-PCS-1466; USS Minah (AMc-204), ex-PCS-1465, later AMCU-14
In the early 1980s, the U.S. Navy began development of a new mine countermeasures (MCM) force, which included two new classes of ships and minesweeping helicopters.The vital importance of a state-of-the-art mine countermeasures force was strongly underscored in the Persian Gulf during the eight years of the Iran–Iraq War, and in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm in 1990 and 1991 when ...
Four ex-USN ships were sold to the Republic of China Navy 1994 and re-classed as Yung Yang-class minesweepers. They were still in active service in 2012. USS Implicit was decommissioned 30 September 1994 in Tacoma, Washington and was the last Aggressive-class minesweeper in US Navy active service.
Soviet Navy Rear Admiral Boris Dmitrievich Popov, commander of the 5th Independent Brigade of Soviet Navy Ships at Cold Bay, Territory of Alaska, speaks aboard an unidentified Admirable-class minesweeper at Cold Bay on 21 or 22 May 1945 during the ceremony transferring the ship from the United States Navy to the Soviet Navy in the secret ...
Magnetic naval minesweeper as a monument in Kotka, Finland Siegburg, a modern Ensdorf-class minesweeper of the German Navy. Minesweepers are equipped with mechanical or electrical devices, known as "sweeps", for disabling mines.
MMS-class minesweeper (403 ships, launched 1940—1945) inshore acoustic / magnetic motor minesweepers; Algerine-class minesweeper (98 ships, launched 1941—1945) twin-screw multi-role minesweeping sloops; Catherine-class minesweeper (22 ships, transferred from the US Navy in 1941 under the Lend-Lease program) twin-screw multi-role ...
Pages in category "Minesweepers of the United States Navy" The following 122 pages are in this category, out of 122 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
USS Gallant (MSO-489), an Aggressive-class minesweeper, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named Gallant.The ship served in the US Navy from 1954 until 1994, when it was sold to Taiwan under the Security Assistance Program and renamed to Yung Ku (M 1308).