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Center patch courtesy of Mike Smolinski, right bronze plaque courtesy of Tommy Trampp

Heron (MHC 52)

Heron call sign:
November - Tango - Hotel - Foxtrot

Heron served the Navies of the United States and Greece

Kalipso call sign:
Sierra - Zulu - Zulu - Charlie

Osprey Class Coastal Minehunter:

The third Heron was laid down 11 October 1989

Launched 21 March 1992

Commissioned USS Heron (MHC 52), 6 August 1994

Decommissioned 16 March 2007 at Naval Station Ingleside, TX, transferred to Greece and renamed HS Kalipso (M 64)

Fate unknown.

Specifications:

Displacement 895 Metric Tons

Length 188'

Beam 36'

Draft (Navigation) 9' 5", Draft (Keel) 7'

Speed 12 kts.

Complement 53

Armament: Two .50 cal. machine guns and one man held Stinger missile launcher

Propulsion: Two 800hp Isotta Fraschini ID36 SS8V-AM diesel engines; two Voith Schneider vertical axis, cycloidal, controllable pitch propellers, two shafts

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, Loran C, Military global positioning system (GPS), AN/BQH-7A expendable bathythermograph set

Mine Countermeasures Systems: AN/SLQ-48(V)2 mine neutralization system (MNS), AN/SQQ-32 minehunting sonar.

Click on thumbnail for full size image	Size	Image Description	Source
USS Heron (MHC 52)
	71k	Namesake: *Heron* - A long-necked, long-legged wading shore bird indigenous to Louisiana and the vast coastal marshlands	Tommy Trampp
	117k
	98k
	25k	U.S. Navy photo	USS Heron Website
	119k	U.S. Navy photo from Commander, Mine Warfare Command	Fabio Peña
	79k		Robert Hurst
	303k	Photo from Naval History and Heritage Command, Catalog No. L45-124.01.01	Mike Green
HS Kalipso (M 64)
	223k	19 April 2010 Off Cartagena, Spain Photo courtesy of Diego Quevedo Carmona	Robert Hurst
	168k	6 January 2012 Piraeus, Greece	George Haralampudes
	157k
	182k

Commanding Officers
01	CDR Daniel I. Gallagher, USN	6 August 1994 - 7 April 1996
02	LCDR Robert Douglas Fink, USN	7 April 1996 - 23 January 1998
03	CDR Peter Lyle Stitt, USN	23 January 1998 - 27 August 1999
04	LCDR Anthony Lloyd Krueger, USN - USNA Class of 1985	27 August 1999 - 19 January 2001
05	LCDR Mark Alan Becker, USN	19 January 2001 - 27 September 2002
06	LCDR Robert M. Gordon, USN	27 September 2002 - 16 July 2004
07	LCDR James Robert Midkiff, USN - USNA Class of 1990 Awarded two Legion of Merits, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, three Meritorious Service Medals, four Navy/Marine Corps Commendation Medals and two Navy/Marine Corps Achievement Medals	16 July 2004 - 15 August 2004
08	LCDR Thomas Patrick Hollingshead, USN	15 August 2004 - 1 November 2004
09	LCDR Eric Crawfors Cash, USN	1 November 2004 - 15 March 2006
10	LCDR Andrew Forrest Carlson, USN - USNA Class of 1995	15 March 2006 - 10 January 2007 (Crew Endurance)
11	LCDR Shanti Rae Sethi, USN	10 January 2007 - 16 March 2007

Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves

View the Heron (MHC 52)
DANFS History entry located on the Naval History and Heritage Command website

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