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WOODEN SHIPS & IRON MEN
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| Courtesy of Bill Yates |
Acme Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 28 June 1955 at Frank L. Sample, Jr. Inc., Boothbay Harbor, Maine;
Launched, 12 July 1956; Commissioned USS Advance (MSO-510), 16 June 1958; Decommissioned in December 1970; Laid up in the
Pacific Reserve Fleet, Mare Island Group; Struck from the Naval Register, 15 May 1976; Sold for scrapping 6 January 1977 to
Oskco Edwards, Capistrano Beach, CA for $40,010.
For Sale what's left of MSO 510 and Beaver Island , in the Sacramento Delta for around $350,000.
Specifications: Displacement 633 t.(lt) , 750 t.(fl); Length 173'; Beam 36'; Draft 14'; Speed
14 kts; Complement 78; Armament one 40mm gun mount, two .50 cal. machine guns; Propulsion, four 570shp Packard 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.
David Bruhn
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