Thank you for your Service. 🫡⚓️🇺🇸
USS Devastator (MCM 6), USS Dextrous (MCM 13), USS Gladiator (MCM 11), and USS Sentry (MCM 13) – after nearly 40 years of service, these Avenger-class mine countermeasures ships and their crews were honored during the final decommissioning ceremony for USS Devastator (MCM 6) aboard Naval Support Activity Bahrain, Sept. 25. ⚓
“For more than three decades, USS Devastator, USS Dextrous, USS Gladiator and USS Sentry have been critical to maritime missions around the globe – defending the freedom of navigation, promoting stability and deterring and defeating efforts by adversaries to harm the innocent,” said U.S. Navy Vice Adm. George Wikoff, commander, U.S. Naval Forces Central Command (NAVCENT). “To all, past and present, who have served on [these ships], thank you for standing the watch, being true trailblazers in the fleet and maintaining a constant presence in our area of operations… what a proud legacy you leave in your wake.”
Avenger-class ships were designed as mine sweepers/hunter-killers capable of finding, classifying and destroying moored and bottom mines. The ships used sonar and video systems, cable cutters and a mine detonating device that could be released and detonated by remote control. They were also capable of conventional sweeping measures. The ships were a fiberglass-sheathed, wooden hull construction.
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