WOODEN SHIPS & IRON MEN
Falcon Class Motor Mine Sweeper: Laid down as AMS-197, 23 December 1953 by the Broward Marine, Inc., Fort Lauderdale, FL; Launched, 27 November 1954; Redesignated MSC-197, 7 February 1955; Commissioned USS Parrot (MSC 197), 28 June 1955; Decommissioned, and placed in service as a Naval Reserve Training Ship, 26 September 1968; Placed out of service, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, 1 August 1972; Sold by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service for scrapping, 1 December 1976.
Specifications: Displacement 362 t.; Length 144' 3"; Beam 27' 2"; Draft 12'; Speed 13.6 kts; Complement 39; Armament two .50 cal. machine guns and one mortar; Propulsion two 600shp Packard diesel engines, two shafts.
Coastal minesweeper nonmagnetic construction, wooden hull and stainless steel, aluminum, and bronze engine and hull fittings.Fitted with UQS-1 sonar. Range is 2500 miles at ten knots.
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NOVEMBER CHARLIE DELTA WHISKEY
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