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MCM-10 Warrior

Call sign:
November - Whiskey - Alpha - Romeo

Avenger Class Mine Countermeasures Ship: Laid down, 25 September 1989 at Peterson Builders, Sturgeon Bay, Wisc; Launched, 8 December 1990; Commissioned 7 April 1993; 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; seven officers, 75 enlisted, Armament, two M2HB .50 cal. machine guns, two M60.7 62 mm 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.

Size	Image Description	Source
57k	c. 1993/94 Ardent (MCM 12), Pioneer (MCM 9), Gladiator (MCM 11), and Warrior at Peterson Builders.	Bob Daly/PC-1181
179k	U.S. Navy photo from the March 1994 edition of All Hands magazine.	Joe Radigan
212k	c. November 2005 Exercise GOMEX 06-01 Crew members of MCM Crew Implicit, onboard the USS Warrior MCM-10 recover a Mk. 6 inert mine shape. The Warrior used her SLQ-48 Mine Neutralization Vehicle to cut the mooring cable, then recovered the shape for return to NSA Panama City, FL. The Warrior's RHIB crew consisted of coxswain MN2(CC) Mike Nielsen, EN3(SW) Jesse Hinojosa, and MN3 Lorenzo Cuellar.	DC2(SS) David Johnston, USNR MCM Crew Implicit USS Warrior MCM-10
225k	c. November 2005	DC2(SS) David Johnston, USNR MCM Crew Implicit USS Warrior MCM-10
244k	c. November 2005	DC2(SS) David Johnston, USNR MCM Crew Implicit USS Warrior MCM-10
168k	c. November 2005	DC2(SS) David Johnston, USNR MCM Crew Implicit USS Warrior MCM-10

There is no DANFS history available for Warrior (MCM-10)

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 Warrior (MCM-10)
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen

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