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Spoonbill (MSC 202)
ex-AMS-202


Spoonbill served the Navies of the United States and Spain.



Duero call sign:
Echo - Bravo - Juliet - Bravo
Redwing Class Motor Minesweeper:

  • Laid down 2 November 1953 as AMS-202 by the Tampa Marine Co., Tampa, FL
  • Launched 3 August 1954
  • Reclassified as a Coastal Minesweeper, MSC-202, 7 February 1955
  • Commissioned USS Spoonbill (MSC 202), 14 June 1955
  • Decommissioned 16 June 1959, struck from the Navy Register, transferred to Spain and renamed Duero (M 28)
  • Reclassified M-23 in 1980
  • Struck from the Spanish Navy List 16 December 1999 per Resolution 306/99
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 335 t.
  • Length 144'
  • Beam 28'
  • Draft 8' 4"
  • Speed 14 kts.
  • Complement 39
  • Armament: Two 20mm mounts
  • Propulsion: Two 880bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear, two shafts.
    Click on thumbnail
    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    Duero (M 28)
    Duero 137k c. 1960
    Photo from "Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1947 - 1995," Conway Maritime Press    		 Robert Hurst
    Duero (M 23)
    Duero 42k 27 April 1986 Fabio Peña
    Duero 76k 30 August 1988
    Mahón, Balearic Islands, Menorca, Spain    		 Ignacio López
    Duero 109k 6 December 1988
    Alongside Ebro (M 22) ex-M-26, ex-U.S. MSC-269. Both are at "dress ship" for Spanish Constitution Day    		 Fabio Peña
    Commanding Officers
    01LTJG Arthur Peter Ismay, USN - USNA Class of 1951
    Retired as Captain    		14 June 1955 - 17 December 1955
    02LTJG Robert Ellis Mann, USN17 December 1955 - 14 November 1957
    03LTJG William George McKeown, Jr., USN14 November 1957 - 12 December 1958
    04LTJG John Watson, USN12 December 1958 - 16 June 1959
    Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler, Ron Reeves and Joseph M. Radigan (of blessed memory)
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