Everything about Uss Patriot Mcm-7 totally explained
|
| Career |
|
Awarded:
|
|
Laid down:
|
31 March 1987 |
Launched:
|
15 May 1990 |
Commissioned:
|
13 December 1991 |
Status:
|
|
Homeport:
|
Sasebo, Japan |
| General characteristics |
Displacement:
|
1,367 tons (1,390 t) |
Length:
|
224 ft (68.3 m), overall |
Beam:
|
39 ft (11.9 m) |
Draft:
|
13 ft (4.0 m) |
Propulsion:
|
4 × Waukesha Motors Co. diesel engines,
2 × controllable/reversible pitch propellers,
2 × rudders,
2 × light-load electric motors; |
Speed:
|
14 knots (26 km/h) |
Complement:
|
6 officers and 75 enlisted |
MCM Suite:
|
AN/SLQ-48 (V) Mine Neutralization System,
AN/SQL-37 (V) 3 Magnetic/Acoustic Influence Minesweeping Gear,
Oropesa type 0 size 1 Mechanical Sweep Equipment,
MDG 1701 Marconi Magnetometer Degaussing System. |
Electronic systems:
|
AN/SSN-2 Precise Integrated Navigation System (PINS),
AN/SQQ-32 Mine Hunting Sonar,
AN/SPS-55 Surface Radar,
AN/WSN-2 Gyro Compass |
Armament:
|
2 × M2HB .50-cal machine guns,
2 × M60 7.62 mm machine guns,
2 × MK19 grenade launchers |
Motto:
|
Audentes Fortuna Juvat
(Fortune Favors the Brave) |
Nickname:
|
|
USS Patriot (MCM-7), an, is the third
U.S. Navy ship of that name.
Patriot was launched
15 May 1990 by
Marinette Marine in
Marinette, Wisconsin, and commissioned
13 December 1991 in
Charleston, South Carolina. Commander Michael J. O'Moore, a native of
Brooklyn, New York, was the commissioning Commanding Officer.
Patriot was originally homeported at
NS Charleston until
1993, when, she transferred to
NS Ingleside, Texas.
History
In
1994 Patriot was called to serve in the Pacific, and since then has served as one of two forward-deployed MCMs in
7th Fleet's Amphibious Ready Group.
Patriot is operationally assigned to MCMDiv 11, CTF 76, ComSeventhFlt, CinCPacFlt, and USCinCPac. Her administrative chain of command is CoMCMDiv 11,
CoMCMRon 1, CoMineWarCom (
NAS Corpus Christi, TX) recently merged with Naval Anti-Submarine Warfare Command into NMAWC (Naval Mine and Anti-Submarine Warfare Command), and ComNavSurfLant. Although
Patriot was permanently assigned to
Sasebo,
Japan, her crew served on a rotational basis from Ingleside, Texas. Each rotation lasted approximately 6 months. In
1997 the crew assignments were changed to permanent overseas assignments.
In March
2003 the major event was TSTA3/FEP. This Tailored Ship's Training Availability (TSTA3)/ Final Exercise Problem (FEP) initially designed to be a training assist visit to assess readiness, was turned into a graded scenario to prove her battle readiness. This advanced stage of training is designed to improve ships operations and give
Patriot an opportunity to prove she's ready to perform her primary and secondary missions with utmost efficiency and skill.
Patriot executed her deployment phase during the 2003 calendar year. Along with conducting MINEX, she participated in
Exercise Foal Eagle 2003, a combined naval exercise with the
Republic of Korea.
Patriot successfully accomplished 100 percent mine-warfare tasking during the integrated exercise.
Patriot conducted a WESTPAC Deployment during the months of May and June conducting port visits in
Okinawa,
Fukuoka, JA,
Pusan, ROK,
Inchon, ROK, and
Kagoshima, JA.
Patriot also took part in the 50th Anniversary of the
Korean War with a port visit to Pusan, South Korea.
Patriot routinely participates in a combined Mine Warfare training exercises with the
Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force as part of an annual MINEX and EODEX. MINEX/EODEX is a joint mine countermeasures (MCM) exercise designed to foster US Navy and Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force (JMSDF) interoperability through the use of the MCM Triad, surface MCM (SMCM) air MCM (AMCM) and Explosive Ordnance disposal (EOD) teams.
In
2005,
Patriot conducted a Selected Maintenance Availability during which the ship was refitted with the most recent equipment upgrades and shipboard alterations. The maintenance period allowed the ship to re-train personnel and in preparations for the ship's Basic Training Phase and Interdeployment Training Cycle.
On
16 February 2007,
Patriot was awarded the 2006
Battle "E" award.
(External Link
)
In late November 2007,
Patriot and fellow minesweeper sought refueling and refuge from an approaching storm in
Hong Kong's
Victoria Harbour, but were denied entry without explanation by the
People's Republic of China. Both ships were eventually
refueled at sea and returned safely to their homeports in Japan.
[Further Information]
Get more info on 'Uss Patriot Mcm-7'.
|
External Link Exchanges
Do you know how hard it is to get a link from a large encyclopaedia? Well we're different and will prove it. To get a link from us just add the following HTML to your site on a relevant page:
<a href="http://uss_patriot__mcm-7.totallyexplained.com">USS Patriot (MCM-7) Totally Explained</a>
Then simply click through this link from your web page. Our crawlers will verify your link, extract the title of your web page and instantly add a link back to it. If you like you can remove the words Totally Explained and embed the link in article text.
As long as your link remains in place, we'll keep our link to you right here. Please play fair - our crawlers are watching. Your site must be closely related to this one's topic. Any kind of spamming, dubious practises or removing the link will result in your link from us being dropped and, potentially, your whole site being banned. |
