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MCM-3 Sentry



Call sign:
November - Sierra - November - Foxtrot

Courtesy of Mike Smolinski


Avenger Class Mine Countermeasures Ship: Laid down, 8 October 1984 at Peterson Builders Inc, Sturgeon Bay, Wisc; Launched 20 September 1986; Commissioned USS Sentry (MCM-3), 2 September 1989; Present Disposition, Mine Countermeasures Squadron Two, U.S. Atlantic Fleet; Homeport, Mine Warfare Center, Naval Station Ingleside, TX.

Specifications: Displacement 1,253 t.(lt) , 1,367 t(fl); Length 224'; Beam 39'; Draft 15'; Speed 13.5k; Complement; 7 officers, 75 enlisted, Armament, two M2HB .50 cal. Machine Guns, two M60 7.62 mm Machine Guns, two MK19 Grenade Launchers; Propulsion, four Isotta Fraschini diesel engines (600 BHP each), two controllable reversible pitch propellers, two rudders, two electric light load propulsion motors; Auxiliary Systems, three Waukesha ship service diesel generator sets, one Solar gas turbine generator, one omni-thruster bow thruster system; Electronic systems; one AN/SSN-2 Precise Integrated Navigation System (PINS), one AN/SQQ-32 Mine Hunting Sonar, one AN/SPS-55 Surface Radar. one AN/WSN-2 Gyro Compass; Mine Countermeasure Equipment Suite, one AN/SLQ-48 (V) Mine Neutralization System, one AN/SQL-37 (V) 3 Magnetic/Acoustic Influence Minesweeping Gear, Oropesa type 0 size 1 Mechanical Sweep Equipment, MDG 1701 Marconi Magnetometer Degaussing System.


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Sentry 115 The Gulf of Mexico, 16 March 2000.
Sentry foreground, and coastal minehunter USS Kingfisher (MHC 56) are underway in the Gulf of Mexico as they depart Naval Station, Ingleside, TX for a cruise to the Great Lakes and to several fleet exercises.
U.S. Navy photo 000316-N-7867W-507
Photographer's Mate 1st Class Charlo Whorton.
Sentry 45 27 April 2003
Sentry's first visit to Valletta, Malta.
Anthony Vella
Senglea, Malta

There is no DANFS history available for Sentry (MCM-3) at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
Official Navy Web Site for USS Sentry (MCM-3)
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen

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