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BYMS-class minesweeper (150 ships, launched 1941—1943) British Yard acoustic / magnetic motor minesweepers; Ton-class minesweeper (116 ships, launched 1952—1959) open-water minesweepers, minehunters and mine countermeasures vessels; Ham-class minesweeper (93 ships, launched 1954—1959) inshore minesweepers
sold to Malaysia 1960 and renamed KD Mahamiru: Derriton: M1128: 22 December 1953: broken up in 1970. The machinery and fittings were reconditioned and installed in the prototype Glass Reinforced Plastic (GRP) minehunter HMS Wilton, launched on 18 January 1972 and commissioned on 14 July 1970; Preserved 2001 Dilston: M1168: 15 November 1954
Mine warfare consists of: minelaying, the deployment of explosive naval mines at sea to sink enemy ships or to prevent their access to particular areas; minesweeping, the removal or detonation of naval mines; and degaussing, the process of decreasing or eliminating a remnant magnetic field in a ship's hull to prevent its detection by magnetic mines.
The special device minesweeper USS Washtenaw County (MSS-2) making her final check sweep in Haiphong Harbor on 20 June 1973. A single-masted junk under sail is at right. Washtenaw County arrived at Haiphong from the Philippines on 6 April, and made her first six check runs there on 14 April, the first American ship to enter Haiphong harbor in ...
During her 15 years of active service with the Navy, the minesweeper served with the Atlantic and 6th Fleets. She operated out of Charleston throughout her career, when not deployed to the Mediterranean. Skill operated with the 6th Fleet in the "middle sea" in 1956, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1962, 1964, 1966, and 1968.
Minesweeper—in which players click around a rectangular grid of squares trying ... former Office of Management and Budget official Franklin S. Reeder told The Washington Post that in the 1960s ...
USS Valor (AM-472/MSO-472) was an Agile-class minesweeper in service with the United States Navy from 1954 to 1970. She was sold for scrap in 1971. She was sold for scrap in 1971. History
USS Albatross (MSC-289) was the lead ship of the Albatross-class coastal minesweeper acquired by the U.S. Navy for clearing coastal minefields. The sixth ship to be named Albatross by the navy, MSC-289 was laid down on 26 February 1959 by Tacoma Boatbuilding Company, Tacoma, Washington, launched on 22 March 1960; sponsored by Mrs. S. A. Peters, and commissioned at the Puget Sound Naval ...