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NavSource Online: Mine Warfare Ship Photo Archive

Courtesy of Mike Smolinski

Robin (MHC-54)

Call sign:
November - Romeo - Bravo - November

Osprey Class Coastal Minehunter: Laid down 1 June 1992 at Avondale Industries Inc., Gulfport, MS; Launched 11 September 1993; Commissioned 11 May 1996; Decommissioned 15 June 2006, struck from the Navy Register and laid up in the Beaumont Reserve Fleet, Beaumont, TX.

Specifications: Displacement 895 Metric Tons; Length 188' ; Beam 36', Draft (Navigation) 9' 2"; Draft (Keel) 7'; Speed 10k; Complement five 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 (MNS), AN/SQQ-32 minehunting sonar.

Size	Image Description	Source
72k	-	-
36k	Underway in the Gulf of Mexico	HMC(SW) Charles T. Canterbury MHC Crew Gallant USS Robin (MHC 54)
67k	c. 2000 Outbound from NAVSTA Ingleside at Port Aransas, TX	Tom Langford
80k	c. 2000 Outbound to the Gulf of Mexico from NAVSTA Ingleside at Port Aransas, TX	Tom Langford
168k	c. November 2005 Panama City, FL Photo taken from USS Warrior (MCM 10)	DC2(SS) David Johnston, USNR MCM Crew Implicit USS Warrior MCM-10
159k	c. November 2005 Panama City, FL Photo taken from USS Warrior (MCM 10)	DC2(SS) David Johnston, USNR MCM Crew Implicit USS Warrior MCM-10

There is no DANFS history available for Robin (MHC-54)

Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation

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

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