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Whippoorwill (AMS / MSC 207)


Contributed by Mike Smolinski


Whippoorwill served the Navies of the United States and the Republic of Singapore.

Redwing Class Motor Minesweeper: Laid down, 7 January 1954 as AMS-207 by the Bellingham Shipyards Co., Bellingham, WA; Launched, 13 August 1954; Redesignated a Coastal Minesweeper MSC-207, 7 February 1955; Commissioned USS Whippoorwill (MSC-207), 20 October 1955 at Tacoma, WA; Decommissioned, 15 December 1970 at San Francisco, CA and placed "in service" as a Naval Reserve Training Ship; Placed "out of service," 30 June 1975; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 July 1975 and sold to the Republic of Singapore where she served as RSS Jupiter (M 101); Discarded, 1990. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 412 t.; Length 145'; Beam 28'; Draft 12'; Speed 12.8 kts; Complement 40; Armament one single 20mm gun mount, two .50 cal. machine guns, one 81mm mortar; Propulsion two 880 shp General Motors diesel engines, two shafts.
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Whippoorwill 58k . Ed Livingston
Whippoorwill 179k . Ed Livingston
Whippoorwill 119k . Ed Livingston
Whippoorwill 105k . Ed Livingston

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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

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Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen

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