USS REAPER MSO 467

Aggressive Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 15 May 1952 at Wilmington Boat Works, Wilmington, CA; Launched, 25 June 1954; Commissioned USS Reaper (AM-467), 10 November 1954; Redesignated an Ocean Minesweeper MSO-467, 7 February 1955; Decommissioned, 22 September 1972; Transferred to the Ship Inactivation Maintenance Facility Pacific Reserve Fleet, Vallejo, CA.; Struck from the Naval Register, 28 February 1975; Sold for scrapping, 7 January 1977 by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service to Edward Hixson, Los Alamitos, CA, for $26,769.
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.