USS Shrike (MSC-201)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Shrike.
USS Shrike (AMS/MSC-201) was a Bluebird-class minesweeper acquired by the US Navy for clearing coastal minefields.
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Shrike (AMS-201), Redwing (MSC-200), Hummingbird (MSC-192), Frigate Bird (MSC-191), and Falcon (MS-190) at Charleston, South Carolina | |
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Name | Shrike |
Namesake | Shrike |
Builder | Tampa Marine Company, Tampa, Florida |
Laid down | 1 September 1953 |
Launched | 21 July 1954 |
Commissioned | 21 March 1955 |
Decommissioned | 27 September 1968 |
Reclassified | Coastal Minesweeper, 7 February 1955 |
Stricken | 1 July 1975 |
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Fate | Scrapped, April 1978 |
General characteristics [1] | |
Class and type | Bluebird-class minesweeper |
Displacement | 412 long tons (419 t) |
Length | 144 ft (44 m) |
Beam | 28 ft (8.5 m) |
Draft | 12 ft (3.7 m) |
Installed power | 2 × General Motors diesel engines |
Propulsion | 2 × screws |
Speed | 12.8 kn (23.7 km/h; 14.7 mph) |
Complement | 40 |
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