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Conflict (MSO 426)
ex-AM-426



Call sign:
November - Bravo - Delta - Uniform
Aggressive Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 13 August 1951 at Fulton Shipyard, Antioch, CA.; Launched, 16 December 1952; Commissioned USS Conflict (AM-426), 23 March 1954; Reclassified as an Ocean Minesweeper, MSO-426, 7 February 1955; Struck from the Navy Register 1 June 1972; Sold for scrap 1 December 1973 to Al Kidman of Wilmington, CA. for $32,000.

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.

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Conflict 39k Commissioning Joe Radigan
Conflict 55k - USS Conflict (MSO-426)
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Rick Szpyrka
Conflict 146k c. mid-1950s
U.S. Navy photo		 Robert M. Cieri
Conflict 105k c. mid-1960s.
Homeward bound through the outer breakwater Conflict follows Dynamic (MSO 432) into Pier 9 at Long Beach Naval Station
Photo by George Arthur		 Floyd Farar
Conflict 56k c. 1962.
Off Long Beach, CA
Photo by George Arthur		 Floyd Farar
Conflict 119k c. 1965.
Dry dock No. 1. Long Beach Naval Shipyard.
Photo by George Arthur		 Floyd Farar
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