USS Champion (MCM-4)

USS Champion (MCM-4), an Avenger-class mine countermeasures ship, is the fourth U.S. Navy ship of that name.

For other ships with the same name, see USS Champion.
USS Champion in 2009
History
United States
Name: USS Champion
Ordered: 23 December 1983
Laid down: 28 June 1984
Launched: 15 April 1989
Commissioned: 7 February 1991
Decommissioned: 25 August 2020
Homeport: Naval Station San Diego, California
Motto: We accept the challenge
Status: decommissioned
Badge:
General characteristics
Class and type: Avenger-class mine countermeasures ship
Displacement: 1,367 tons (1,390 t)
Length: 224 ft (68 m)
Beam: 39 ft (12 m)
Draught: 15 ft (4.6 m)
Propulsion: 4 Isotta Fraschini diesels
Speed: 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Complement: 8 officers and 76 enlisted
Sensors and
processing systems:
  • AN/SLQ-48 (V) Mine Neutralization System,
  • N/SQL-37 (V) 3 Magnetic Acoustic Influence Minesweeping Gear,
  • MDG 1701 Marconi Magnetometer Degaussing System
Electronic warfare
& decoys:
Armament:

Champion was laid down on 28 June 1984 at Marinette Marine Corporation, Marinette, Wisconsin; launched on 15 April 1989; and commissioned on 8 February 1991. She was assigned to the Active Naval Reserve, Mine Countermeasures Squadron Two, US Atlantic Fleet.

While on a five-month deployment in the Mediterranean during 1999, Champion assisted in the evacuation of ethnic Albanians from war-torn Kosovo.[1]

Champion was the recipient of the 2004 Environmental Quality Small Ship Award sponsored by the Environmental Readiness Division of the Chief of Naval Operations .[2]

Champion holds a decommissioning ceremony at Naval Base San Diego on 18 August 2020 and was officially decommissioned on 25th of the same month.[3]

References
  1. Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2001 Archived 2006-11-22 at the Wayback Machine
  2. FY 2004 CNO Environmental Award Winners Named Navy Newsstand, 8 February 2005
  3. "USS Champion Decommissions After 30 Years of Service" (Press release). United States Navy. 18 August 2020.

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