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Falcon (AMS / MSC 190)


Falcon served the Navies of the United States and Indonesia.

Falcon Class Motor Minesweeper: Laid down, 7 May 1953 by the Quincy Adams Yacht Yard Inc., Quincy, MA.; Launched, 21 September 1953; Commissioned USS Falcon (AMS 190), 24 November 1954; Reclassified a Coastal Minesweeper MSC-190, 7 February 1955; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Transferred to Indonesia, 1971; Renamed Pulau Aru (M 722); Struck from the Naval Register, 1 May 1976; Disposed of through the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service for scrap, 1 September 1976.

Specifications: Displacement 362 t.; Length 144 3"'; Beam 27' 2"; Draft 12'; Speed 13.6 kts; Complement 40; Armament one twin 20mm; Propulsion 600shp Packard diesel engines, two shafts.


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AMS-200/121/203/190 79k Redwing (MSC 200), Bluebird (MSC 121), Thrasher (MSC 203), and Falcon at Charleston, SC
US Navy Photo from the June 1956 issue of All Hands magazine
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AMS-201/200/192/191/190 157k Shrike (MSC 201), Redwing (MSC 200), Humming Bird (MSC 192), Frigate Bird (MSC 191), and Falcon at Charleston, SC
US Navy Photo from the June 1956 issue of All Hands magazine
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MSC-190/192/201 144k MSCs Falcon, Humming Bird (MSC 192) and Shrike (MSC 201) moored alongside MINRON 4 flagship, USS Pandemus (ARL 18). YO-129 is outboard
US Navy Photo from the February 1957 issue of All Hands magazine
Joe Radigan

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