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Humming Bird (AMS / MSC 192)


Contributed by Mike Smolinski


Humming Bird served the Navies of the United States and Indonesia.

Bluebird Class Motor Minesweeper: Laid down, 24 October 1953 as AMS-192 by the Quincy Adams Yacht Yard, Inc., Quincy, MA.; Launched, 25 December 1954; Reclassified as a Coastal Minesweeper MSC-192, 7 February 1955; Commissioned USS Humming Bird (MSC 192), 9 February 1955; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Transferred to Indonesia, 1971 and renamed Pulau Impalasa (M 720); 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-201/200/192/191/190 157k Shrike (MSC 201), Redwing (MSC 200), Humming Bird, Frigate Bird (MSC 191), and Falcon (MSC 190) at Charleston, SC
US Navy Photo from the June 1956 issue of All Hands magazine
Joe Radigan
MSC-190/192/201 144k MSCs Falcon (MSC 190), Humming Bird 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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