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Avenge (MSO 423)
ex-AM-423



Call sign:
November - Charlie - Alpha - India
Aggressive Class Ocean Minesweeper: Laid down, 1 August 1951 by Luders Marine Construction Co., Stamford, Conn; Launched, 15 March 1953; Commissioned USS Avenge (AM-423), 13 May 1954; Reclassified as a Ocean Minesweeper, MSO-423, 14 January 1955; Heavily damaged by fire of unknown origin at Bethlehem Steel Corp., Fort McHenry Shipyard, Baltimore, Md. on 7 September 1969; Decommissioned, 31 January 1970; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 February 1970; Sold for scrapping 6 October 1969 to Steve B. Clemons of Miami Shores, FL for $2,789.

Specifications: Displacement 630 t.(lt), 755 t.(fl); Length 172'; Beam 35'; Draft 10'; Speed 14 kts; Complement six Officers, 74 Enlisted; Armament, one single 40mm gun mount, two .50 cal. machine guns; Propulsion, four Packard ID1700 diesel engines, two shafts, two controllable pitch propellers.

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MINDIV-82 120k Ship's of Mine Division Eighty Two prepare to leave Charleston, SC for a Mediterranean deployment. MINDIV-82 ship's from left to right are: Fearless (MSO 442), Avenge, Exultant (MSO 441), the Belgium Minesweeper F. Bovesse (M 909) (ex-MSO-516), and Fidelity (MSO 443).
Photo courtesy of Leroy D. "Mo" Mahoney
Official US Navy Photo		 Belgium MSO Web Site
Avenge 112k Mediterranean Sea Tom Peters EN2 via Tom Lawson
Avenge 96k Dry docked at La Spezia, Italy Tom Peters EN2 via Tom Lawson
Avenge 138k Christmas card Tom Lawson
Avenge 192k Navy Yard Charleston, SC
Avenge and Valor (MSO 472) in Dry Dock		 Robert Hall
Avenge 184k 20 May 1956
mid-Atlantic		 Larry Bohn
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