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USS Thrush (MSC-204)
Minesweeper of the United States Navy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other ships with the same name, see USS Thrush.
USS Thrush (MSC-204) was a Bluebird-class minesweeper in the service of the United States Navy from 1955 to 1975.
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Name | Thrush |
Namesake | Thrush |
Builder | Tampa Marine Company, Tampa, Florida |
Laid down | 7 May 1954 |
Launched | 5 January 1955 |
Commissioned | 8 November 1955 |
Decommissioned | 1 July 1975 |
Reclassified | Coastal Minesweeper, 7 February 1955 |
Stricken | 1 August 1977 |
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Fate | Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, Virginia |
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Name | Virginia Sea |
Operator | VIMS |
Acquired | 1 July 1975 |
Refit | Ocean Research Vessel |
Fate | Scrapped 1 August 1982 |
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Class and type | Bluebird-class minesweeper |
Displacement | 320 long tons (330 t) |
Length | 144 ft (44 m) |
Beam | 28 ft (8.5 m) |
Draft | 9 ft 4 in (2.84 m) |
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Speed | 13 kn (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
Complement | 39 |
Armament | 2 × 20 mm (0.8 in) Oerlikon cannons anti-aircraft (AA) mounts |
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