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USS Cormorant (MHC-57)

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USS Cormorant
History
United States
Name USS Cormorant
Namesake Cormorant
Awarded 29 March 1991
Builder Avondale Shipyards
Laid down 4 October 1993
Launched 21 October 1995
Acquired 3 January 1997
Commissioned 12 April 1997
Decommissioned 01 December 2007
Stricken 01 December 2007
Fate Sold by U.S. General Services Administration for scrap, 08 May 2014
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General characteristics
Class and type Osprey -class coastal minehunter
Displacement 870 tons (light) 957 tons (full)
Length 188 ft (57 m)
Beam 38 ft (12 m)
Draft 11 ft (3.4 m)
Propulsion Two diesels (800 hp each)
Speed 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement Officers: 5 Enlisted: 46
Armament Mine neutralization system & two .50 cal (12.7 mm) machine guns

USS Cormorant (MHC-57) is the seventh ship of Osprey -class coastal minehunters .

Current status [ edit ]

She was transferred to a Naval Inactive Ships Storage Facility in Texas to await transfer under Foreign Military Sales. In September 2010, the U.S. Senate had approved the sale of the ship to India along with USS  Kingfisher  (MHC-56) . This sale never happened. She was stricken from the Navy list on 1 December 2007. She was sold by U.S. General Services Administration for scrap on 8 May 2014.

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