USS Jacana (AMS-193) was a Falcon-class motor minesweeper

Motor minesweeper

A motor minesweeper is a small minesweeper, powered by an internal combustion engine, very often of wooden construction, designed to locate and destroy mines in coastal waters and harbours...

 acquired by the United States Navy

United States Navy

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 for clearing coastal minefields.

Jacana was launched as AMS-193 on 25 February 1954 by Quincy Adams Yacht Yard, Quincy, Massachusetts

Quincy, Massachusetts

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; sponsored by Mrs. Dorothy M. Deehan. Reclassified MSC-193 on 7 February 1955, and commissioned on 10 March 1955, Lt. (j.g.) W. W. Jordan in command.

East Coast operations

After shakedown

Shakedown (testing)

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, Jacana arrived at Charleston, South Carolina

Charleston, South Carolina

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, her home port, on 28 May 1955; and, during the year, engaged in tactical training and experimental exercises part of the Navy's ceaseless activity to maintain a superior-readiness capability that incorporates every modern technological advance. The motor minesweeper

Motor minesweeper

A motor minesweeper is a small minesweeper, powered by an internal combustion engine, very often of wooden construction, designed to locate and destroy mines in coastal waters and harbours...

 arrived at her new home port, Yorktown, Virginia

Yorktown, Virginia

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, on 18 January 1957, and commenced mine warfare exercises in the Chesapeake Bay

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In addition to participating in mine warfare operations, Jacana performed important search and rescue missions for downed aircraft and engaged in amphibious exercises off Onslow Beach, North Carolina. She continued in this series of operations until 28 April 1962, when she proceeded to Port Everglades, Florida, for duty with the Naval Ordnance Laboratory Test Facility. After her mine evaluating mission and Caribbean

Caribbean

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 exercises were completed, Jacana sailed for Halifax

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 late September to participate in joint American-Canadian maneuvers. Soon after this exercise, the Cuba

Cuba

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n crisis brought a showdown with communism. Jacana remained on alert through November.

From 1963 to 1967 Jacana operated along the Atlantic Ocean

Atlantic Ocean

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 coast, engaging in mine exercises, amphibious training, search and rescue operations, and duty with the Naval Mine Defense Laboratory in Florida

Florida

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Decommissioning

Jacana was transferred to Indonesia

Indonesia

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 in 1971 and renamed Pulau Aruan (M 718). She was struck from the Naval Register, 1 May 1976 and sold, 1 September 1976. Fate: unknown.