USS Champion in 2009
History
United States
Name	USS Champion
Ordered	23 December 1983
Laid down	28 June 1984
Launched	15 April 1989
Commissioned	7 February 1991
Decommissioned	25 August 2020
Homeport	Naval Station San Diego, California
Motto	We accept the challenge
Status	decommissioned
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General characteristics
Class and type	Avenger-class mine countermeasures ship
Displacement	1,367 tons (1,390 t)
Length	224 ft (68 m)
Beam	39 ft (12 m)
Draught	15 ft (4.6 m)
Propulsion	4 Isotta Fraschini diesels
Speed	14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Complement	8 officers and 76 enlisted
Sensors and processing systems	AN/SLQ-48 (V) Mine Neutralization System, N/SQL-37 (V) 3 Magnetic Acoustic Influence Minesweeping Gear, MDG 1701 Marconi Magnetometer Degaussing System
Electronic warfare & decoys	AN/SSN-2 Precise Integrated Navigation System (PINS), AN/SQQ-32 Sonar, AN/SPS-55 Surface Radar, Oropesa type 0 size 1 Mechanical Sweep Gear
Armament	2 M2HB machine guns, 2 M60 machine guns, 2 Mk 19 grenade launchers

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 28 June 1984 at Marinette Marine Corporation, Marinette, Wisconsin; launched on 15 April 1989; and commissioned on 7 February 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.^[1]

Champion was the recipient of the 2004 Environmental Quality Small Ship Award sponsored by the Environmental Readiness Division of the Chief of Naval Operations .^[2]

Champion was decommissioned on 25 August 2020.^[3]