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Redwing (AMS / MSC 200)


Redwing served the Navies of the United States and Spain.



Call sign for Sil (M 27):
Echo - Bravo - Juliet - Delta

Bluebird Class Motor Minesweeper: Laid down, 1 July 1953 by the Tampa Marine Co., Tampa, FL; Launched, 29 April 1954; Commissioned USS Redwing (AMS 200), 7 January 1955; Reclassified as a Coastal Minesweeper MSC-200, 7 February 1955; Decommissioned, 16 June 1959 at Norfolk, VA; Struck from the Naval Register, 18 June 1959 and transferred to Spain; Renamed Sil (M 29); Reclassified in the late 1970s as a Patrol Craft PVZ-55; Reclassified in 1982 as a Minesweeper and designated M-27. As of December 2001, Sil is still on active duty with the Spanish Navy.

Specifications: Displacement 335 t.; Length 144'; Beam 28'; Draft 8' 4"; Speed 14 kts; Complement 39; Armament two 20mm; Propulsion two General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, 880shp, two shafts.


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AMS-201/200/192/191/190 157k Shrike (MSC 201), Redwing, 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
AMS-200/121/203/190 79k Redwing, Bluebird (MSC 121), Thrasher (MSC 203), and Falcon (MSC 190) at Charleston, SC
US Navy Photo from the June 1956 issue of All Hands magazine
Joe Radigan
M-29 95k Sil (M 29)
Spanish Navy Photo
Fabio Peña
M-27 41k Sil (M 27)
Spanish Navy Photo
Spanish Navy
M-27 68k Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 25 June 1985. Ignacio López
Odiel/Sil/Ebro/Genil 131k Odiel (M 26), ex-MSC-288; Sil; Ebro (M-22) ex-MSC-269; and Genil (M-25), ex-MSC-279.
Barcelona, Spain, 10 November 2002.
Fabio Peña
Odiel/Sil/Ebro/Genil 86k Odiel (M 26), ex-MSC-288; Sil; Ebro (M-22) ex-MSC-269; and Genil (M-25), ex-MSC-279.
Barcelona, Spain, 10 November 2002.
Fabio Peña

View the Redwing (AMS 200)
DANFS History entry located on 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
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen

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