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Aggressive Class Minesweeper: Laid down 27 April 1953 as AM-459 by Higgins Inc., New Orleans, LA; Launched
6 August 1954; Commissioned USS Nimble (MSO-459), 11 May 1955; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register
1 November 1976; Sold for scrapping 6 September 1981 by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service to Tuscon One Hour
Inc., Cincinnati, OH, for $45,002.
Specifications: Displacement 775 t; Length 172'; Beam 35'; Draft 12'; Speed 14 kts;
Complement 8 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, 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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