USS Limpkin | Trackpads Warship Archive

USS Limpkin (MSC-195) is one of 14 mine craft participating in LANTPHIBEX 1-62 at Vieques, Puerto Rico. Lantphibex 1-62 involved a Marine assault using the island of Vieques off the coast of Puerto Rico as a training exercise for a potential invasion of Cuba. President Kennedy was on hand to observe the exercise.https://www.navsource.net/archives/11/110519502.jpg · Public domainImage source

Hull / pennantM 719, MSC-195

ClassFalcon class

NavyUnited States Navy

CountryUnited States

Builder / shipyardBroward Marine

Completed1955-04-10

Recorded statusTransferred/disposed

What is known about this ship

Limpkin is documented as one ship in the Falcon class lineage. Designation changes, conversions, and foreign transfers remain temporal identities on this same hull.

Service history

Transferred to Indonesia in 1971 as Pulau Anjer (M 719).

Class context: Falcon class

The Falcon class comprises ten U.S.-built coastal minesweepers, MSC-190 through MSC-199, with six later Indonesian transfers retained as new service identities on the same ships.

Later service and disposition

Transferred to Indonesia in 1971 as Pulau Anjer (M 719).

Class relationship

This ship is recorded as a member of Falcon class. Shared design history belongs on the class page; this page concentrates on the individual hull where evidence is available.

Sources and further reading

Motor Mine Sweeper Photo Archive — AMS / MSC Index ↗NavSource Naval History · accessed 2026-09-19
Minesweepers MSO MSC MSI MHC MCM Post-War — ShipbuildingHistory ↗ShipbuildingHistory.com · accessed 2026-09-19

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