Delivered to the Maritime Commission on 12 December 1946 for disposal and sale
General characteristics
Displacement
195 tons
Length
98 ft 5 in (30.00 m)
Beam
23 ft 6 in (7.16 m)
Draught
10 ft 8 in (3.25 m)
Speed
10.0 knots
Complement
17
Armament
one .50 cal (12.7 mm) machine gun
USS Skipper (AMc-104) was an Accentor-class coastal minesweeper acquired by the U.S. Navy for the dangerous task of removing mines from minefields laid in the water to prevent ships from passing.
Skipper, a coastal minesweeper, was laid down on 21 May 1941 by H. G. Marr of Damariscotta, Maine; launched on 16 January 1942, sponsored by Miss Irene Jones, and placed in service on 29 May 1942.
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multiple deployments aboard USS Enterprise (CVN-65), USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69), USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) and USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75)...
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patrol for USS Joseph Strauss. Sahand fired missiles at the A-6Es, which replied with two Harpoon missiles and four laser-guided Skipper missiles. Joseph...
shot down on 3 July 1988 by two SM-2MR surface-to-air missiles fired by USS Vincennes, a guided-missile cruiser of the United States Navy. The missiles...
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