USS Champion (MCM-4)
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 & 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 |
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| Electronic warfare & decoys | |
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USS Champion (MCM-4), an Avenger-class mine countermeasures ship, is the fourth U.S. Navy ship of that name.
Champion was laid down on 28 June 1984 at Marinette Marine Corporation, Marinette, Wisconsin; launched on 15 April 1989; and commissioned on 7 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.
Champion was the recipient of the 2004 Environmental Quality Small Ship Award sponsored by the Environmental Readiness Division of the Chief of Naval Operations .
Champion was decommissioned on 25 August 2020.