Name USS Kingfisher Awarded 29 March 1991 Acquired 24 July 1996 Construction started 12 February 1993 Length 57 m | Namesake Kingfisher Laid down 12 February 1993 Commissioned 26 October 1996 Launched 18 June 1994 Builder Avondale Shipyard | |
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USS Kingfisher (MHC-56) was the sixth ship of Osprey-class coastal mine hunters. She is named after the kingfisher.
Kingfisher was decommissioned in a joint ceremony along with three other Coastal Mine Hunters. She was the last Coastal Mine Hunter (MHC) in active service with the US Navy. She was transferred to a Naval Inactive Ships Storage Facility in Texas to await transfer under Foreign Military Sales. In September 2010, the US Senate had approved the sale of the ship to India along with MHC-57 Cormorant. This sale never happened. Stricken from the Navy list 01 December 2007, sold by U.S. General Services Administration for scrap, 08 May 2014.
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