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WOODEN SHIPS & IRON MEN
Aggressive Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 29 October 1952 at Wilmington Boat Works Inc., Wilmington,
CA; Launched, 16 October 1953; Commissioned USS Inflict (AM-456), 11 May 1954; Reclassified as an Ocean Minesweeper, MSO-456,
7 February 1955. (MSO 446). Decommissioned, 30 March 1990; Struck from the Naval Register, 23 May 1990; Sold for scrapping
4 December 1992 by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service to Sea Witch Salvage of Baltimore, MD. for $12,000.
Specifications: Displacement 775 t; Length 172'; Beam 35'; Draft 12'; Speed 14 kts; Complement
eight officers, 70 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,20mm gun mount removed when SQQ-14 installed, two .50 cal. machine guns remain;
Propulsion, four Packard ID1700 diesel engines, replaced by four Waukasha Motors Co. diesels, 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
I need Commanding Officers names and dates onboard.Leave info in the logbook or send
email.
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