Officially Licensed US Navy USS Devastator (MCM-6) Patch — Avenger-Class Mine Countermeasures Ship USS Devastator Bahrain / 5th Fleet Embroidered Patch
Thirteen years on the Bahrain line — USS Devastator MCM-6, mine warfare in the Arabian Gulf.
USS Devastator (MCM-6) was the sixth of fourteen Avenger-class mine countermeasures ships of the United States Navy. Her keel was laid down on February 9, 1987 at Peterson Shipbuilders in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, she was launched on June 11, 1988, and she was commissioned on October 6, 1990. After service from West Coast homeports, Devastator relocated from San Diego to Manama, Bahrain in mid-2012 and operated forward-deployed from Bahrain for the next 13 years under US Naval Forces Central Command (NAVCENT) and US 5th Fleet. As an Avenger-class MCM her primary mission was finding, classifying, and destroying moored and bottom mines — ensuring freedom of navigation through the choke points of the Arabian Gulf, the Strait of Hormuz, and the Bab-el-Mandeb in support of US and coalition naval forces. On February 18, 2025, in one of her final notable operational events, Devastator and US Coast Guard Cutter Clarence Sutphin Jr. rescued the crew of the Iranian cargo ship Shayesteh, which sank in the Persian Gulf off Qatar — a humanitarian mission carried out in waters where the ship had spent more than a decade. USS Devastator was decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on September 25, 2025, as part of the Navy's planned divestiture of the Avenger-class MCM platform in favor of the Littoral Combat Ship's mine countermeasures mission package.
Perfect For: USS Devastator MCM-6 sailors, chiefs, and officers, Avenger-class mine countermeasures ship veterans, Manama Bahrain and US 5th Fleet families and personnel, mine warfare (MIW) and explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) community, Naval Forces Central Command (NAVCENT) personnel, San Diego MCM homeport alumni, and US Navy mine warfare community supporters.
USS Devastator MCM-6 — Bahrain line, 1990–2025.
