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MCM-6 Devastator


Avenger Class Mine Countermeasures Ship: Laid down, 9 February 1987 at Peterson Builders Inc., Sturgeon Bay, Wisc.; Launched, 11 June 1988; Commissioned USS Devastator (MCM-6), 6 October 1990; 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; 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 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 omni-thruster 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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Devastator 93k - -
Devastator 91k Potomac River, 8 June 1992
Dept of Defense photo DN-S92-09011
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Devastator 107k Battling heavy seas during a refueling at sea operation with USS Inchon (MCS 12) in the Atlantic, 16 March 1999. The ships are en route to the Sixth Fleet area of operations.
US Navy photo 990316-N-7949J-007.
Photographer's Mate 3rd Class Sean Jordan

There is no DANFS history available for Devastator (MCM-6) 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 Devastator (MCM-6)
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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