Name USS Dextrous Laid down 11 March 1991 Commissioned 9 July 1994 Construction started 11 March 1991 Length 68 m Displacement 1.19 million kg | Ordered 12 December 1989 Christened 3 December 1993 Launched 20 June 1992 Weight 1,333 tons Draft 3.51 m | |
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USS Dextrous (MCM-13) is an Avenger-class mine countermeasures ship in the United States Navy.
She was built by Peterson Shipbuilders, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. Dextrous is homeported in Bahrain and is part of the U.S. Fifth Fleet.
Dextrous was featured in a front-page article in the 31 July 2006 edition of DefenceNews that pointed out that USS Ardent and Dextrous were suffering from equipment failures that made them unable to perform their role.
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