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AMS / MSC-208 Widgeon


Redwing Class Motor Minesweeper: Laid down, 3 May 1954 as AMS-208 at Bellingham Shipyards, Inc., Bellingham, WA; Launched, 15 October 1954; Reclassified as a Coastal Minesweeper MSC-208, 7 February 1955; Commissioned, USS Widgeon (MSC-208), 16 November 1955; Decommissioned, 10 October 1969 at Long Beach, CA and placed in service as a Naval Reserve Training Ship; Placed out of service and struck from the Naval Register, 2 July 1973; Sold June 1974.
Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 412 t.; Length 145'; Beam 28'; Draft 12'; Speed 12.8 kts; Complement 40; Armament one single 20mm gun mount, two .50 cal. machine guns, one 81mm mortar; Propulsion two 880 shp General Motors diesel engines, two shafts.
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Widgeon 68k Coming alongside Warbler (MSC 206). Paul Wamsley
Widgeon 124k c. 1969-70, Operation "Market Time," off Vung Tau, Vietnam, Widgeon coming alongside USS Niagara Falls (AFS-3) for replenishment. Photo by William P. Jones, MD USS Niagara Falls (AFS-3)

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Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

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Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen

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