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|---|---|
| Name: | USS Jacana |
| Builder: | Quincy Adams Yacht Yard, Quincy, Massachusetts |
| Laid down: | 26 February 1954 |
| Launched: | 25 February 1955 |
| Commissioned: | 10 March 1955 |
| Decommissioned: | date unknown |
| Struck: | 1 May 1976 |
| Fate: | Transferred to Indonesia, 1971 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Falcon-class minesweeper |
| Displacement: | 362 long tons (368 t) |
| Length: | 144 ft 3 in (43.97 m) |
| Beam: | 27 ft 2 in (8.28 m) |
| Draft: | 12 ft (3.7 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 × 600 shp (447 kW) Packard diesel engines, 2 shafts |
| Speed: | 13.6 knots (25.2 km/h; 15.7 mph) |
| Complement: | 39 |
| Armament: | • 2 × .50 cal. machine guns • 1 × 81 mm mortar |
USS Jacana (AMS-193) was a Falcon-class motor minesweeper acquired by the United States Navy for clearing coastal minefields.
Jacana was launched as AMS-193 on 25 February 1954 by Quincy Adams Yacht Yard, Quincy, Massachusetts; sponsored by Mrs. Dorothy M. Deehan. Reclassified MSC-193 on 7 February 1955, and commissioned on 10 March 1955, Lt. (j.g.) W. W. Jordan in command.
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After shakedown, Jacana arrived at Charleston, South Carolina, her home port, on 28 May 1955; and, during the year, engaged in tactical training and experimental exercises part of the Navy's ceaseless activity to maintain a superior-readiness capability that incorporates every modern technological advance. The motor minesweeper arrived at her new home port, Yorktown, Virginia, on 18 January 1957, and commenced mine warfare exercises in the Chesapeake Bay.
In addition to participating in mine warfare operations, Jacana performed important search and rescue missions for downed aircraft and engaged in amphibious exercises off Onslow Beach, North Carolina. She continued in this series of operations until 28 April 1962, when she proceeded to Port Everglades, Florida, for duty with the Naval Ordnance Laboratory Test Facility. After her mine evaluating mission and Caribbean exercises were completed, Jacana sailed for Halifax late September to participate in joint American-Canadian maneuvers. Soon after this exercise, the Cuban crisis brought a showdown with communism. Jacana remained on alert through November.
From 1963 to 1967 Jacana operated along the Atlantic Ocean coast, engaging in mine exercises, amphibious training, search and rescue operations, and duty with the Naval Mine Defense Laboratory in Florida
Jacana was transferred to Indonesia in 1971 and renamed Pulau Aruan (M 718). She was struck from the Naval Register, 1 May 1976 and sold, 1 September 1976. Fate: unknown.
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.