&sq=Google&lang=en&file=File:US_Minesweeper_MSC-121_Bluebird_detail.JPG) Broadside view of Bluebird off south end of Mare Island on 29 September 1953.
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | Bluebird |
| Namesake | Bluebird |
| Builder | Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California |
| Laid down | 5 February 1952 |
| Launched | 11 May 1953 |
| Commissioned | 24 July 1953 |
| Decommissioned | 9 September 1968 |
| In service | 9 September 1968 |
| Out of service | 1 July 1971 |
| Reclassified | Coastal Minesweeper, 7 February 1955 |
| Stricken | 2 January 1975 |
| Identification |
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| Fate | Sold for scrap, September 1979 |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Class and type | Bluebird-class minesweeper |
| Displacement | 330 long tons (340 t) |
| Length | 144 ft 3 in (43.97 m) |
| Beam | 28 ft (8.5 m) |
| Draft | 12 ft (3.7 m) |
| Installed power |
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| Propulsion | 2 × screws |
| Speed | 14 kn (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
| Complement | 39 |
| Armament |
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USS Bluebird (AMS/MSC-121) was a Bluebird-class minesweeper acquired by the United States Navy for clearing minefields in coastal waterways.