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NavSource Online: Mine Warfare Ship Photo Archive

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Pioneer (MCM 9)

Call sign:
November - Papa - November - Romeo

Avenger Class Mine Countermeasures Ship: Laid down, 5 June 1989 at Peterson Builders, Incorporated, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin; Launched, 25 August 1990; Commissioned 1 September 1992; Active, Mine Countermeasures Squadron One, Sasebo, Japan.

Specifications: Displacement 1,253 t.(lt) , 1,367 t.(fl); Length 224'; Beam 39'; Draft 15'; Speed 13.5k; Complement; seven officers, 75 enlisted, Armament, two M2HB .50 cal. machine guns, two M60 7.62 mm machine guns, two Mk 19 grenade launchers; Propulsion four 600bhp Isotta Fraschini diesel engines, 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.

Size	Image Description	Source
57k	c. 1993/1994 Ardent (MCM 12), Pioneer, Gladiator (MCM 11), and Warrior (MCM 10) at Peterson Builders.	Bob Daly/PC-1181
74k	-	-
320k	10 December 2002 Seaman Apprentice Luke Simowitz maintains course while on watch as helmsman aboard the ship while conducting exercises near San Diego, Calif. U.S. Navy photo 021210-N-8029P-001 by Photographer’s Mate 3rd Class Ramon Preciado	Bill Gonyo
140k	22 October 2006 Key West, FL	DC1(SW/SS) David Johnston, USNR MCM Crew Implicit

There is no DANFS history available for Pioneer (MCM-9)

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
Official Navy Web Site for USS Pioneer (MCM-9)
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen

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