USS Frigate Bird (AMS-191)
USS Frigate Bird (AMS/MSC-191) was a Bluebird-class minesweeper acquired by the US Navy for clearing coastal minefields.
Shrike (AMS-201), Redwing (MSC-200), Hummingbird (MSC-192), Frigate Bird (MSC-191), and Falcon (MS-190) at Charleston, South Carolina | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | Frigate Bird |
| Namesake | Frigate bird |
| Builder | Quincy Adams Yacht Yard, Inc., Quincy, Massachusetts |
| Laid down | 20 July 1953 |
| Launched | 24 October 1953 |
| Commissioned | 13 January 1955 |
| Reclassified | Coastal Minesweeper, 7 February 1955 |
| Stricken | 1 May 1976 |
| Identification |
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| Fate | Transferred to Indonesia, 1971 |
| Indonesia | |
| Name | Pulau Atang |
| Acquired | 1971 |
| Identification | Hull symbol: M-721 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap, 1 September 1976 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Bluebird-class minesweeper |
| Displacement | 290 long tons (290 t) |
| Length | 144 ft 3 in (43.97 m) |
| Beam | 28 ft (8.5 m) |
| Draft | 9 ft (2.7 m) |
| Installed power |
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| Propulsion | 2 × screws |
| Speed | 13 kn (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
| Complement | 39 |
| Armament | 1 × twin 20 mm (0.8 in) Oerlikon cannons anti-aircraft (AA) mount |
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