USS Sentry (MCM-3)
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| Sentry (MCM-3) and coastal minehunter Kingfisher (MHC-56), 16 March 2000.
Sentry (front) and USS Kingfisher (MHC-56)
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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(s): | The Sentinel of the Sea |
| Status: | in active service, as of 2024[update] |
| Badge: | 150px |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & 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) |
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| Speed: | 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
| Boats & landing craft carried: |
2 RHIB |
| Capacity: | 81 |
| Complement: | 6 officers, 75 enlisted |
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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
- 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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File:USS Sentry (MCM-3).jpg
Sentry on the Hudson River, May 2002
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