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NavSource Online: Mine Warfare Vessel Photo Archive
Courtesy of Mike Smolinski

Dash (MSO 428)
ex-AM-428

Dash Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 2 July 1951 by the Astoria Marine Construction Co., Astoria, Oregon; Launched, 20 September 1952; Commissioned USS Dash (AM-428), 14 August 1953; Reclassified as an Ocean Minesweeper, MSO-428, 7 February 1955; Decommissioned, 2 October 1982; Sold for scrap 26 January 1984 to Wayne Hobbs of Huntington, CA for $22,229.

Specifications: Displacement 775 t; Length 172'; Beam 35'; Draft 12'; Speed 14 kts; Complement 78; Armament, as built, one Mk 3 40mm gun mount, final configuration, bow gun replaced by one twin 20mm gun mount, and added two .50 cal. machine guns; Propulsion, four General Motors diesel engines, replaced by four Waukasha Motors Co. diesels, two shafts, two controllable pitch propellers.

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Dash 140k Under construction Astoria Marine Construction Co.
Dash 102k Progress photo Astoria Marine Construction Co.
Dash 104k 14 February 1953
Progress photo		 Astoria Marine Construction Co.
Dash 147k . Astoria Marine Construction Co.
Dash 93k . Astoria Marine Construction Co.
Dash 88k . Dick Lewis, 102 Minesweepers
Courtesy, Jerry Falduto
Dash 89k U.S. Navy Photo Naval Historical Center
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DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
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102 Minesweepers (MSO) Oceangoing Minesweepers
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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