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Aggressive Class Minesweeper:: Laid down, 12 December 1951 at Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, VA; Launched,
14 March 1952; Commissioned USS Bold (AM-424), 20 September 1953; Reclassified as an Ocean Minesweeper, MSO-424, 7 February
1955; Decommissioned in 1975; Struck from the Naval Register, 28 February 1975; Sold for scrap 1 June 1981 to Tuscon One Hour
Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio for $45,000.
Specifications: Displacement 630 t.(lt), 755 t.(fl); Length 172'; Beam 35'; Draft 10';
Speed 14 kts; Complement 6 Officers, 74 Enlisted; Armament, as built, one single 40mm gun mount, two .50 cal machine guns,
final configuration, bow gun replaced by one twin 20mm gun mount, two .50 cal. machine guns remain; Propulsion, four Packard
ID1700 diesel engines, two shafts, two controllable pitch propellers
These new minesweepers were smaller and built primarily of wood , with bronze and stainless (non-magnetic) steel fittings
to minimize their magnetic signature. All of the 1950 era MSOs had UQS-1 mine-locating sonar, later updated with SQQ-14 sonar.
MSOs were capable of sweeping for moored, bottom contact, magnetic and acoustic mines.
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WOODEN SHIPS AND IRON MEN a book by CDR David D.Bruhn USN RET.The history of our MSO's from 1953 to 1994.
To learn more about this excellent minesweeper book please visit CDR Bruhn's website at the link below.
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