USS Champion (MCM-4)

For other ships of the same name, see USS Champion.

History
USS Champion in 2009
United States
Name:	USS Champion
Ordered:	23 December 1983
Laid down:	28 June 1984
Launched:	15 April 1989
Commissioned:	8 February 1991
Homeport:	Naval Station San Diego, California
Motto:	We accept the challenge
Status:	in active service, as of 2016
Badge:
General characteristics
Class & type:	Avenger-class mine countermeasures ship
Displacement:	1,367 tons (1,390 t)
Length:	224 ft (68 m)
Beam:	39 ft (12 m)
Draught:	15 ft (4.6 m)
Propulsion:	4 Isotta Fraschini diesels
Speed:	14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Complement:	8 officers and 76 enlisted
Sensors and processing systems:	AN/SLQ-48 (V) Mine Neutralization System, N/SQL-37 (V) 3 Magnetic Acoustic Influence Minesweeping Gear, MDG 1701 Marconi Magnetometer Degaussing System
Electronic warfare & decoys:	AN/SSN-2 Precise Integrated Navigation System (PINS), AN/SQQ-32 Sonar, AN/SPS-55 Surface Radar, Oropesa type 0 size 1 Mechanical Sweep Gear
Armament:	2 M2HB machine guns, 2 M60 machine guns, 2 Mk 19 grenade launchers

USS Champion (MCM-4), an Avenger-class mine countermeasures ship, is the fourth U.S. Navy ship of that name.

Champion was laid down on 28 June 1984 at Marinette Marine Corporation, Marinette, Wisconsin; launched on 15 April 1989; and commissioned on 8 February 1991. She was assigned to the Active Naval Reserve, Mine Countermeasures Squadron Two, US Atlantic Fleet.

While on a five-month deployment in the Mediterranean during 1999, Champion assisted in the evacuation of ethnic Albanians from war-torn Kosovo.^[1]

Champion was the recipient of the 2004 Environmental Quality Small Ship Award sponsored by the Environmental Readiness Division of the Chief of Naval Operations .^[2]

References

↑ Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2001
↑ FY 2004 CNO Environmental Award Winners Named Navy Newsstand, 8 February 2005

External links

Official page

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