General Characteristics, Avenger Class Mine Countermeasures 

• Builder: Peterson Ship Builders, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin

• Date Commissioned: 02 September 1989

• Homeport: Manama, Bahrain

• Propulsion: Four Isatto Franchini Diesel Engines; two shafts; 1,175 total shaft horsepower

• Length: 225 feet (68.8 meters)

• Beam: 39 feet (11.9 meters)

• Displacement: Light load 1,160 L tons, full load 1,260.97 L tons

• Speed: In excess of 10 knots

• Crew: 75 enlisted, 10 officers

• Armament: Four M2HB .50 Cal machine guns; two M240 machine guns

• Sensors and processing systems: AN/SLQ-60 Surface Mine Neutralization System Seafox; AN/SQL-37 Magnetic/Acoustic
  
  Influence Minesweeping Gear; MDG 1701 Marconi Magnetometer Degaussing System; AN/SSN-2 Precise Integrated
  
  Navigation System, AN/SQQ-32 Mine Hunting Sonar, AN/SPS-73 Surface Radar, AN/WSN-7 Gyro Compass.