USS Sentry (MCM-3)
For other ships of the same name, see USS Sentry.
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Name: | USS Sentry |
Awarded: | 23 December 1983 |
Builder: | Peterson Shipbuilders |
Laid down: | 8 October 1984 |
Launched: | 20 September 1986 |
Commissioned: | 2 September 1989 |
Homeport: | Bahrain[1] |
Motto: | "Iron men in wooden ships." |
Nickname: | The Sentinel of the Sea |
Status: | in active service, as of 2015 |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Avenger-class mine countermeasures ship |
Displacement: | 1,367 tons (1,390 t) |
Length: | 224 ft (68 m) overall |
Beam: | 39 ft (12 m) |
Draft: | 13 ft (4.0 m) |
Propulsion: | 4 × Isatto Franchini Co. diesel engines, 2 × controllable pitch propellers, 2 × rudders, 2 × light-load electric motors |
Speed: | 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
Boats and landing craft carried: | 2 RHIB |
Capacity: | 81 |
Complement: | 6 officers, 75 enlisted |
Sensors and processing systems: | MCM suite: AN/SLQ-48 Mine Neutralization System, AN/SQL-37(V)3 Magnetic/Acoustic Influence Minesweeping Gear, Oropesa type 0 size 1 Mechanical Sweep Equipment, MDG 1701 Marconi Magnetometer Degaussing System Electronics: AN/SSN-2 Precise Integrated Navigation System (PINS), AN/SQQ-32 Mine Hunting Sonar, AN/SPS-55 Surface Radar, AN/WSN-7 Gyro Compass |
Armament: | 2 × M2HB .50-cal machine guns, 2 × M60 7.62 mm machine guns, 2 × Mk 19 grenade launchers |
USS Sentry (MCM-3), an Avenger-class mine countermeasures ship, is the second U.S. Navy ship of that name. Sentry was laid down on 8 October 1984 by Peterson Builders in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin; launched on 20 September 1986 and commissioned on 2 September 1989.
Her homeport is Naval Base San Diego.[1]
On 15 March 2012, the U.S. Navy announced USS Sentry would be one of four minesweepers moved to the Persian Gulf region.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Leporati, Mike (12 September 2009). "USS Sentry Moves to San Diego". Navy News Service. Retrieved 15 September 2009.
- ↑ Cavas, Christopher P. (15 March 2012). "U.S. doubling minesweepers in Persian Gulf". Navy Times. Retrieved 15 April 2015.
- This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain. The entry can be found here.
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Sentry on the Hudson River, May 2002