USS Chief (MCM-14)

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USS Chief and the tugboat Ybor in Tampa
Career USN Jack
Ordered: December 12, 1989
Laid down: August 19, 1991
Launched: June 12, 1993
Commissioned: November 5, 1994
Homeport: Ingleside, Texas
Fate: Active in service as of 2008
General characteristics
Displacement: 1,312 tons
Length: 224 ft (68 m)
Beam: 39 ft (12 m)
Draught: 11,5 ft (Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "," m)
Propulsion: four diesels
Speed: 14 knots
Complement: 8 Officers, 6 Chief Petty Officers and 70 Enlisted
Armament: Mine neutralization system, two .50 caliber machine guns

USS Chief (MCM-14) is an Avenger-class mine countermeasures ship in the United States Navy. She was named for Chief Petty Officers.

She was built by Peterson Shipbuilders, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. Avenger is homeported in Ingleside, Texas and is part of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet.

This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain.

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