USS Shrike (MHC-62)

Laid down 12 September 1995 by Intermarine USA, Savannah, GA

Launched 24 May 1997

Delivered 11 January 1999

Commissioned 31 May 1999 at Baton Rouge, LA

Decommissioned 1 December 2007 at Naval Station Ingleside, TX and struck from the Navy register

Towed to Beaumont, TX 10 December 2007 and laid up for possible future use in the Foreign Military Sales program.

Fate unknown.

Displacement 895 Metric Tons

Length 188'

Beam 36'

Draft (Navigation) 9' 2"; Draft (Keel) 7'

Speed 10 kts.

Complement 5 officers, 48 enlisted

Armament: Two .50 cal. machine guns

Propulsion: Two Isotta Fraschini ID36 SS8V-AM diesel engines, two Voith Schneider vertical axis, cycloidal, controllable pitch propellers

Machinery: Electrical Systems two ship service diesel generators, one ship service/emergency diesel generator; Monocoque Design glass reinforced plastic monohull design. No longitudinal or transverse hull framing. The skin carries all

the stresses. The vessel is flexible under shock. Machinery is supported by cradles from the main deck

Electronics: Sensors/Navigation Systems AN/SYQ-13 Navigation, Command & Control System, AN/SPS-64(V)9 surface search radar, AN/SPA-25G radar display; AN/UQN-4A sonar sounding set, AN/WSN-2 stabilized

gyrocompass, Hyper-fix radio navigation system, Plotting table; Loran C, Military global positioning system (GPS), AN/BQH-7A expendable bathythermograph set; Mine Countermeasures Systems AN/SLQ-48(V)2 mine

neutralization system (MNS), AN/SQQ-32 mine hunting sonar.

(Source: http://www.navsource.org/archives/11/0462.htm)