USS Heron (MHC-52)
For other ships with the same name, see USS Heron.
History | |
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United States | |
Name: | USS Heron |
Namesake: | Heron |
Awarded: | 17 February 1989 |
Builder: | Intermarine USA, Savannah, Georgia |
Laid down: | 11 October 1989 |
Launched: | 21 March 1992 |
Completed: | 22 July 1994 |
Commissioned: | 6 August 1994 |
Decommissioned: | 16 March 2007 |
Struck: | 16 March 2007 |
Identification: | MHC-52 |
Fate: | Sold to Greece |
Badge: | |
Greece | |
Name: | Kalypso |
Identification: | M64 |
Fate: | in active service |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Osprey-class coastal minehunter |
Displacement: | 839 tons (light) 926 tons (full) |
Length: | 188 ft (57 m) |
Beam: | 38 ft (12 m) |
Draft: | 11 ft (3.4 m) |
Complement: | Officers: 5 Enlisted: 46 |
USS Heron (MHC-52) is the second ship of Osprey-class coastal minehunter.
Heron was transferred to the Hellenic Navy under a foreign military sales agreement on 16 March 2007. Heron was renamed Kalipso.
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.
- http://www.hellenicnavy.gr/eynikh_kalypso_en.asp
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