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MCM-2 Defender
Courtesy of Mike Smolinski

Call sign: November - Papa - Bravo - Alpha
Avenger Class Mine Countermeasures Ship; Laid down, 1 December 1983 at Marinette Marine Corp., Marinette, Wisc.; Launched, 4 April 1987; Commissioned USS Defender (MCM-2), 30 September 1989; As of 30 September 1995, active Naval Reserve Force, Mine Countermeasures Squadron Two, U.S. Atlantic Fleet; Home port, 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 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 Waukesha 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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There is no DANFS history available for Defender (MCM-2) 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 Defender (MCM-2)
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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