&sq=Google&lang=en&file=File:MSC-206_Yokusoka_Mar1967.jpg) Three US Bluebird-class minesweepers at Yokosoka Naval Base, Japan, in March 1967. The one nearest to the camera is USS Warbler (MSC-206). The Essex-class aircraft carrier Hancock is visible in the distant background.
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | Warbler |
| Namesake | Warbler |
| Builder | Bellingham Shipyards, Bellingham, Washington |
| Laid down | 15 October 1953 |
| Launched | 18 June 1954 |
| Commissioned | 26 July 1955 |
| Decommissioned | 1 October 1970 |
| Reclassified | Coastal Minesweeper, 7 February 1955 |
| Stricken | 1 July 1975 |
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| Honors and awards | 7 × engagement stars |
| Fate | Sold to Fiji, 14 October 1975 |
 Fiji | |
| Name | Kiro |
| Acquired | 14 October 1975 |
| Commissioned | 14 October 1975 |
| Decommissioned | 10 October 1995 |
| Stricken | 1996 |
| Identification | Hull sumbol: MSC-206 |
| Fate | Wrecked and burnt, September 1996 |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Class and type | Bluebird-class minesweeper |
| Displacement | 412 long tons (419 t) |
| Length | 145 ft (44 m) |
| Beam | 28 ft (8.5 m) |
| Draft | 12 ft (3.7 m) |
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| Speed | 12.8 kn (23.7 km/h; 14.7 mph) |
| Complement | 40 |
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USS Warbler (AMS/MSC-206) was a Bluebird-class minesweeper of the United States Navy, that saw service during the Vietnam War, and was later sold to Fiji, where she served as HMFS Kiro (MSC-206).