Sailors at Naval Support Activity Bahrain bid farewell to the last of their wooden-hulled mine hunting ships in a handoff to ...

The U.S. Navy retired its last Avenger-class mine countermeasures ships this week in Bahrain, ending a legacy of over three ...

U.S. Navy Vice Adm. George Wikoff, commander, U.S. Naval Forces Central Command (NAVCENT) and U.S. 5th Fleet (C5F) presided ...

Task Force 55/Destroyer Squadron 50 of the US 5th Fleet now handles mine countermeasures in the US Central Command's area.

The last Avenger-class mine countermeasure ship left naval service in the Middle East this week, U.S. 5th Fleet announced ...

The Navy on Sept. 25 conducted a decommissioning ceremony for the last of four Avengers-class mine countermeasures ships ...

A noteworthy fact about the Avenger-class minesweepers is that their hulls are constructed of wood—so as to avoid metal hull ...

This post has been updated to correct the status of Military Sealift Command ships that are being transferred to the Maritime ...

After decades of setbacks and early retirements, the Navy’s most ridiculed ship is finally doing its job: hunting mines and ...

Adam Ochs, commander of the San Diego-based littoral combat ship USS Santa Barbara, was relieved of duty on Thursday “due to ...