USS Champion (MCM-4)

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 June 28 1984 at Marinette Marine Corporation, Marinette, Wisconsin; launched on April 15 1989; and commissioned on February 8 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. [ [http://www.news.navy.mil/navydata/testimony/seapower/krupp000323.txt Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2001] ]

Underway off Central America on January 24 2003, "Champion" responded to a distress call, and rescued a pleasure trawler whose captain turned out to be an American World War II Navy veteran. [ [http://www.navybuddies.com/ships/news/mcm4-012403.htm Champion Rescues Navy Veteran on the High Seas] ]

"Champion" was the recipient of the 2004 Environmental Quality Small Ship Award sponsored by the Environmental Readiness Division of the Chief of Naval Operations . [ [http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=16987 FY 2004 CNO Environmental Award Winners Named] Navy Newsstand, February 8, 2005]

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External links

* [http://www.navsource.org/archives/11/1204.htm Champion (MCM-4) at NavSource]
* [http://www.uscarriers.net/mcm4history.htm Champion (MCM-4) at US Carriers]
* [http://www.navy.mil/navydata/cno/n87/usw/issue_3/undersea_partners.htm Undersea Partners – The Mine Countermeasures Surface Force]