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USS Inchon (MCS-12) with four MH-53E minesweeping helicopters on deck, 2001 This is a list of mine warfare vessels of the United States Navy.. Ship status is indicated as either currently active [A] (including ready reserve), inactive [I], or precommissioning [P].
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 ...
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 ...
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.
A minesweeper is a small warship designed to remove or detonate ... The United States Navy even used specialized mechanized landing craft to sweep shallow harbors in ...
The Agile-class minesweepers are a class of US-built ocean-going minesweepers. 58 ships were built for the United States Navy, 35 ships were built for the allied NATO navies of Belgium, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway and Portugal. 13 ships were later transferred to Belgium, Spain, Taiwan, the Philippines and Uruguay.
USS Conquest (MSO-488) was an Agile-class minesweeper in the United States Navy. Conquest was laid down by the J.M. Martinac Shipbuilding Corp. of Tacoma, Washington on 26 March 1953 as AM-488, launched on 20 March 1954 by Mrs. C. D. Henderson. She was reclassified MSO-488 on 7 February 1955, and commissioned on 8 July 1955.
USS Velocity (AM-128) was an Auk-class minesweeper acquired by the United States Navy for the dangerous task of removing mines from minefields laid in the water to prevent ships from passing. She was the second warship to bear the name. Notes on USS Velocity by LCdr Roland Blandford