USS Falcon (AMS-190)

For other ships with the same name, see USS Falcon.
Falcon with U.S. Mine Division 22, circa 1965
History
Name: USS Falcon
Builder: Quincy Adams Yacht Yard
Launched: 21 September 1953
Commissioned: 24 November 1954
Decommissioned: 1 May 1976
Reclassified: MSC-190, 7 February 1955
General characteristics
Class and type: Bluebird-class minesweeper
Displacement: 290 long tons (295 t)
Length: 144 ft (44 m)
Beam: 28 ft (8.5 m)
Draft: 9 ft (2.7 m)
Speed: 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph)
Complement: 39
Armament: • 2 × 20 mm mounts

The fourth USS Falcon (AMS-190/MSC-190) was a Bluebird-class minesweeper in the United States Navy.

Falcon was launched 21 September 1953 by Quincy Adams Yacht Yard, Inc., Quincy, Massachusetts; sponsored by Mrs. A. D. MacDonnell; and commissioned 24 November 1954, Lieutenant (junior grade) M. J. Schultz, Jr., in command. She was reclassified MSC-190 on 7 February 1955.

East Coast operations

Between 7 January 1955 and 16 January 1957, Falcon was based at Charleston, South Carolina, for minesweeping exercises, amphibious operations, and mine warfare development activities along the east coast and in the Caribbean. Little Creek, the amphibious base in the Norfolk, Virginia, naval complex, was her home port for similar operations until 12 February 1959, when she sailed for Rodman, Canal Zone. During 1960, she sailed out of Rodman for operations on both sides of the Panama Canal, and visits to Central American islands and ports.

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