USS Heron (MHC-52)
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Career (United States) |
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Name: |
USS Heron |
Namesake: |
Heron |
Awarded: |
17 February 1989 |
Builder: |
Intermarine USA, Savannah, Georgia |
Laid down: |
11 October 1989 |
Launched: |
21 March 1992 |
Completed: |
22 July 1994 |
Commissioned: |
6 August 1994 |
Decommissioned: |
16 March 2007 |
Struck: |
16 March 2007 |
Fate: |
Sold to Greece |
Career (Greece) |
|
Name: |
Kalypso (M64) |
Fate: |
in active service, as of 2012[update] |
General characteristics |
Class and type: |
Osprey-class coastal minehunter |
Displacement: |
839 tons (light) 926 tons (full) |
Length: |
188 ft (57 m) |
Beam: |
38 ft (12 m) |
Draft: |
11 ft (3.4 m) |
Complement: |
Officers: 5 Enlisted: 46 |
For other ships of the same name, see
USS Heron.
The USS Heron (MHC-52) is the second ship of Osprey-class coastal minehunter.
Heron was transferred to the Hellenic Navy under a foreign military sales agreement on 16 March 2007. Heron will be renamed Kalipso.
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