USS Avenger (MCM-1)
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 Avenger undergoing shock test |
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| Career (US) |  |
|---|---|
| Ordered: | June 29, 1982 |
| Builder: | Peterson Shipbuilders |
| Laid down: | June 3, 1983 |
| Launched: | June 15, 1985 |
| Commissioned: | September 12, 1987 |
| Homeport: | Ingleside, Texas |
| Motto: | Dux et Defensor Semitae (“Guide & Defender of the Pathway”) |
| Fate: | Active in service as of 2008 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Avenger class |
| Displacement: | 1,367 tons (1,390 t) |
| Length: | 224 ft (68 m) overall |
| Beam: | 39 ft (12 m) |
| Draft: | 13 ft (4.0 m) |
| Propulsion: | 4 × Waukesha Motors Co. diesel engines, 2 × controllable/reversible pitch propellers, 2 × rudders, 2 × light-load electric motors |
| Speed: | 14 knots (26 km/h) |
| Complement: | 6 officers, 75 enlisted |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
AN/SSN-2 Precise Integrated Navigation System (PINS), AN/SQQ-32 Mine Hunting Sonar, AN/SPS-55 Surface Radar, AN/WSN-2 Gyro Compass |
| Armament: | Mine hunting equipment: AN/SLQ-48(V) Mine Neutralization System, AN/SQL-37(V)3 Magnetic/Acoustic Influence Minesweeping Gear, Oropesa type 0 size 1 Mechanical Sweep Equipment, MDG 1701 Marconi Magnetometer Degaussing System, Armament: 2 × M2HB .50-cal machine guns, 2 × M60 7.62 mm machine guns, 2 × MK19 grenade launchers |
USS Avenger (MCM-1) is the lead ship of her class of mine countermeasures ship, and the third U.S. Navy ship of that name.
Avenger was laid down on 3 June 1983 by the Peterson Shipbuilders Co., Sturgeon Bay, Wisc.; launched on 15 June 1985, sponsored by Mrs. Sybill Stockdale; and commissioned on 12 September 1987.
Subsequent to her commissioning and a period of test and trials, Avenger arrived in her homeport of NS Charleston, South Carolina, and began operating as a member of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet. Following the 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, Avenger deployed to the Persian Gulf as a coalition force member in support of Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm on 16 August 1990. Avenger was the longest-serving ship from all of the coalition forces during the Shield/Storm conflict, as well as the first ship in the history of naval warfare to locate and neutralize bottom mines. Avenger was awarded the Navy Unit Commendation and Combat Action Ribbon for her wartime accomplishments.
In 1993, Avenger shifted homeports to the newly constructed Naval Station Ingleside, Texas. Since that time she deployed to the Eastern Atlantic in 1993 and 1995, Mediterranean Sea in 1997 and 1999. In 2001 Avenger deployed to the Eastern Pacific via the Panama Canal and conducted Joint, Combined, and Bilateral exercises and operations on the West Coast. Late in 2001, Avenger conducted test operations of a revolutionary jam-resistant electronic navigation system. Avenger completed her most significant modernization in the summer of 2002. In 2004, USS Avenger deployed to participate in the Rim of the Pacific Exercise (RIMPAC), one of the first two MCMs in this multi-national exercise.
Avenger is part of the Active Naval Reserve Force, Mine Countermeasures Squadron 2, U.S. Atlantic Fleet.
[edit] External links
- USS Avenger official website
- navsource.org: USS Avenger
- nvr.navy.mil: USS Avenger
- navysite.de: USS Avenger
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