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Endurance (MSO-435)
ex-AM-435



Call sign:
November - Quebec - November - November

Aggressive Class Minesweeper: Laid down 28 January 1952 by the J. M. Martinac Shipbuilding Corp., Tacoma, Wash.; Launched 8 August 1953; Commissioned USS Endurance (AM-435), 19 May 1954; Redesignated an Ocean Minesweeper, MSO-435, 7 February 1955; Decommissioned and struck from the Naval Register 1 July 1972; Sold for scrapping 27 January 1974 to Al Kidman, Wilmington, CA., for $32,501.

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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Endurance 96k c. mid-1960s
U.S. Navy photo.		 Robert M. Cieri
Endurance 18k c. June 1969
Subic Bay Naval Station
Damage caused by HMAS Roqual (SS-2) ramming Endurance.		 102 Minesweepers
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