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Chief (MCM-14)

Call sign:
November - Charlie - Papa - Oscar

Avenger Class Mine Countermeasures Ship: Laid down, 19 August 1991 at Peterson Builders, Sturgeon Bay, Wisc; Launched, 12 June 1993; Commissioned 5 November 1994; Active, 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 84; Armament, two M2HB .50 cal. machine guns, two M60 7.62mm machine guns, two Mk 19 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
100k	-	-
36k	At Port Aransas, TX inbound to NavSta Ingleside.	Tom Langford
57k	Passing Port Aransas, inbound to NavSta Ingleside.	Tom Langford
44k	.	Robert Hurst
120k	18 November 1997 Gulf of Mexico A port beam view of the Chief underway. U.S. Navy photo DN-SD-03-11978	Robert M. Cieri
94k	27 April 2003 Chief's first visit to Valletta, Malta.	Anthony Vella Senglea, Malta
131k	3 December 2004 Panama City, FL Chief and the mine hunter coastal ship Osprey (MHC 51) prior to getting underway for the Gulf of Mexico Exercises (GOMEX) 05-1. GOMEX is scheduled quarterly for mine countermeasures units that have completed a basic mine countermeasures training phase. GOMEX marks the transition of a mine warfare readiness group from training to ready-to-deploy status and includes integrated surface, air and explosive ordnance disposal mine countermeasures operations U.S. Navy photo 041203-N-0206B-016 by Jacqui Barker	Original photo: Joe Radigan Replacement photo: Bill Gonyo
221k	23 September 2005 Ingleside, TX In preparation of Hurricane Rita, mine countermeasures ships home ported at Naval Station Ingleside nest in a modified mooring. Ships present (left to right): Unknown, Scout (MCM 8), unknown, Sentry (MCM 3), Champion (MCM 4), Pioneer (MCM 9), Chief, Gladiator (MCM 11), Avenger (MCM 1) and Defender (MCM 2). U.S. Navy photo 050923-N-4913K-006 by Fifi Kieschnick	Robert M. Cieri

There is no DANFS history available for Chief (MCM-14)

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
Official Navy Web Site for USS Chief (MCM-14)
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen

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