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Osprey (MHC-51)

Osprey Class Coastal Minehunter: Laid down, 16 June 1988 by the Intermarine Shipyard, Savannah, GA; Launched, 23 March 1991; Commissioned 20 November 1993; Decommissioned 15 June 2006, struck from the Navy Register and laid up in the Reserve Fleet at Beaumont, TX.

Specifications: Displacement 895 Metric Tons; Length 188' ; Beam 36', Draft (Navigation) 9' 2"; Draft (Keel) 7'; Speed 10k; Complement 5 Officers, 48 Enlisted; Armament two .50 cal. machine guns; Propulsion two Isotta Fraschini ID36 SS8V-AM diesel engines, two Voith Schneider vertical axis, cycloidal, controllable pitch propellers, Electrical Systems two ship service diesel generators, one ship service/emergency diesel generator; Monocoque Design glass reinforced plastic monohull design. No longitudinal or transverse hull framing. The skin carries all the stresses. The vessel is flexible under shock. Machinery is supported by cradles from the main deck; Sensors/Navigation Systems AN/SYQ-13 Navigation, Command & Control System, AN/SPS-64(V)9 surface search radar, AN/SPA-25G radar display; AN/UQN-4A sonar sounding set, AN/WSN-2 stabilized gyrocompass, Hyper-fix radio navigation system, Plotting table; Loran C, Military global positioning system (GPS), AN/BQH-7A expendable bathythermograph set; Mine Countermeasures Systems AN/SLQ-48(V)2 mine neutralization system, AN/SQQ-32 mine hunting sonar.

Size	Image Description	Source
42k	Line drawing.	Joe Radigan
43k	.	Osprey Web Site
75k	.	Osprey Web Site
42k	Fitting out at the Intermarine USA shipyard. Savannah, GA. 5 September 1993.	OS2 John Bouvia
51k	Fitting out at the Intermarine USA shipyard. Savannah, GA. 5 September 1993.	OS2 John Bouvia
115k	Fitting out at the Intermarine USA shipyard. Savannah, GA. 5 September 1993.	.
146k	Conducting training exercised near Ingleside, TX.	Bill Gonyo
178k	The rescue, salvage and towing ship USS Grapple (ARS-53), heads in to port with the mine hunter ship Osprey in tow. U.S. Navy photo 970930-N-0000U-018	Bill Gonyo
131k	3 December 2004 Panama City, FL The mine countermeasure ship USS Chief (MCM 14) and the mine hunter coastal ship Osprey prior to getting underway for the Gulf of Mexico Exercises (GOMEX) 05-1. GOMEX is scheduled quarterly for mine countermeasures units that have completed a basic mine countermeasures training phase. GOMEX marks the transition of a mine warfare readiness group from training to ready-to-deploy status and includes integrated surface, air and explosive ordnance disposal mine countermeasures operations U.S. Navy photo 041203-N-0206B-016 by Jacqui Barker	Original photo: Joe Radigan Replacement photo: Bill Gonyo

There is no DANFS history available for Osprey (MHC-51)

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen

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