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NavSource Online: Mine Warfare Ship Photo Archive

Courtesy of Mike Smolinski

MCM-8 Scout



Call sign:
November - Alpha - Bravo - Whiskey

Avenger Class Mine Countermeasures Ship: Laid down, 8 June 1987 at Peterson Builders, Sturgeon Bay, Wisc; Launched, 20 May 1989; Commissioned USS Scout (MCM-8), 15 December 1990; Present Disposition, Active, in commission, Mine Countermeasures Squadron Two, U.S. Atlantic Fleet; Homeport, Mine Warfare Center 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, 7.62mm 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 Isotta Fraschini ship service diesel generator sets, one solar gas turbine generator, one omnithruster 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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Scout 77k Photo taken from Malaga pier, in the Spring of 1999. Scout shown pierside, "nested". Juan Ternero
Scout 85k Photo taken from Malaga pier, in the Spring of 1999. Scout shown pierside, "nested". Juan Ternero
Scout 85k Photo taken from Malaga pier, in the Spring of 1999. Scout shown pierside. Juan Ternero
Scout 66k Photo taken from Malaga pier, in the Spring of 1999. Scout shown "nested" with Champion (MCM 4) and Avenger (MCM 1). Juan Ternero
Scout 69k 27 April 2003
Scout's first visit to Valletta, Malta.
Anthony Vella
Senglea, Malta

There is no DANFS history available for Scout (MCM-8) 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 Scout (MCM-8)
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen

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