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Frigate Bird (AMS / MSC 191)

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Frigate Bird served the Navies of the United States and Indonesia.

Bluebird Class Motor Minesweeper: Laid down, 20 July 1953 as AMS-191 by the Quincy Adams Yacht Yard, Inc., Quincy, MA.; Launched, 24 October 1953; Commissioned USS Frigate Bird (AMS 191), 13 January 1955; Reclassified as a Coastal Minesweeper MSC-191, 7 February 1955; Decommissioned (date unknown); Transferred to Indonesia, 1971 and named Pulau Atang (M 721); Struck from the Naval Register, 1 May 1976; Disposed of through the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service for scrap, 1 September 1976.

Specifications: Displacement 362 t.; Length 144 3"'; Beam 27' 2"; Draft 12'; Speed 13.6 kts; Complement 40; Armament one twin 20mm; Propulsion 600shp Packard diesel engines, two shafts.
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