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The first commissioned ship of this class in the US Navy was the USS Bluebird (AMS-121), hence its US Navy class name. This class became Minesweepers, coastal (MSC) on 7 February 1955. USS Adjutant (AMS-60) (transferred to Portugal)
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 ...
Auk-class minesweepers of the United States Navy (73 P) B. Bluebird-class minesweepers (1 C, 23 P) Bullfinch-class minesweepers (2 P) C. Catbird-class minesweepers (3 ...
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 .
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.
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 ...
USS George Washington Carrier Strike Group underway in the Atlantic USS Constitution under sail for the first time in 116 years on 21 July 1997 The United States Navy has approximately 470 ships in both active service and the reserve fleet; of these approximately 50 ships are proposed or scheduled for retirement by 2028, while approximately 110 new ships are in either the planning and ordering ...
The United States Navy even used specialized mechanized landing craft to sweep shallow harbors in and around North Korea. [10] As of June 2012, the U.S. Navy had four minesweepers deployed to the Persian Gulf to address regional instabilities.