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Bluebird (AMS / MSC 121)


Bluebird Class Motor Minesweeper: Laid down, 5 February 1952 by the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, CA; Launched, 11 May 1953; Commissioned USS Bluebird (AMS 121), 24 July 1953; Reclassified as a Coastal Minesweeper MSC-121, 7 February 1955; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, 2 January 1975; Disposed of 1 August 1979 through the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service for scrap.

Specifications: Displacement 330 t.; Length 144'; Beam 28'; Draft 12'; Speed 13 kts; Complement 39; Armament one twin 20mm, two .50 cal. machine guns, and one 81mm mortar; Propulsion 600hp Packard diesel engines, two shafts.


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Bluebird 69k Launching Darryl Baker
AMS-200/121/203/190 79k Redwing (MSC 200), Bluebird, Thrasher (MSC 203), and Falcon (MSC 190) at Charleston, SC
US Navy Photo from the June 1956 issue of All Hands magazine
Joe Radigan
MSC-121 67k MSC-121
US Navy Photo from All Hands magazine
Joe Radigan

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Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

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Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen

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