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AMS / MSC-201 Shrike


Redwing Class Motor Minesweeper: Laid down, 1 September 1953 as AMS-201 at Tampa Marine Co., Tampa Bay, Fla; Launched, 21 July 1954; Redesignated a Coastal Minesweeper MSC-201, 7 February 1955; Commissioned USS Shrike (MSC-201), 21 March 1955; Decommissioned, 27 September 1968; Placed in service as a Naval Reserve Training Ship, August 1974; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 July 1975; Scrapped, April 1978.

Specifications: Displacement 412 t.; Length 145'; Beam 28'; Draft 12'; Speed 12.8 kts; Complement 40; Armament one 20mm, two .50 cal. machine guns, and one 81 mm mortar; Propulsion two 880shp General Motors diesel engines, two shafts.


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Shrike 96k - Al Hines
Shrike 103k An explosive charge detonates close aboard during structural tests. DANFS
AMS-201/200/192/191/190 157k Shrike, Redwing (MSC 200), Humming Bird (MSC 192), 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 (MSC 192) and Shrike 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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Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

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

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