Specifications:

Displacement 775 t.
Length 172'
Beam 35'
Draft 12'
Speed 14 kts.
Complement 78
Armament: As built, one 40mm gun mount and 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 Waukesha Motors Co. diesels, controllable pitch propellers, two shafts.

Click on thumbnail for full size image	Size	Image Description		Source
USS Exultant (MSO 441)
	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 (MSO 423), Exultant, the Belgium Minesweeper F. Bovesse (M 909) (ex-MSO-516), and Fidelity (MSO 443). Photo courtesy of Leroy D. "Mo" Mahoney Official U.S. Navy Photo		Belgium MSO Web Site
	115k	.		Jerry Crow, ETR2 Crew member 1973/74
	69k	c. 1956 Valetta, Malta Photo by A. & J. Pavia from the 1956/1957 edition of Jane's Fighting Ships		Robert Hurst
	100k	c. mid-1960s U.S. Navy photo		Robert M. Cieri
	355k	c. 1969		Leland Rogers, RM3, Crew member 1969/70
	239k	c. 1969/70 Highlining with Fearless (MSO 442)
	386k	21 September 1971 Departing La Spezia, Italy		Carlo Martinelli
	110k	c. 1980s Wilmington NC		Al Hines
Exultant
	48k	c. December 2000. Awaiting scrapping at Baltimore, MD.		Save An MSO Web Site Rick Szpyrka, Richard Lewis, and Al Hines
	49k

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Commanding Officers
01	LT Robert T. Gregory, USN	22 June 1954 - 30 March 1955
02	LCDR John F. Hawkins, USN	30 March 1955 - 5 April 1956
03	LCDR Allen Lee Peek, USN	5 April 1956 - 13 July 1957
04	LT Alva Manly Bowen, Jr., USN	13 July 1957 - 10 July 1958
05	LT Samuel L. Doak, USN	10 July 1958 - 8 July 1959
06	LCDR George E. McPadden, USN	8 July 1959 - 31 July 1960
07	LCDR Murray Alan Hess, USN	31 July 1960 - 13 April 1962
08	LCDR Daniel Thomas Bridge, USN	13 April 1962 - 27 September 1963
09	CDR Robert Malcolm Marshall, USN	27 September 1963 - 24 May 1965
10	LT George A. Overstreet, USN	24 May 1965 - 5 May 1967
11	LT Weldon J. Bowling, USN	5 May 1967 - 30 August 1968
12	LT Lee Neal Schofield, USN	30 August 1968 - 20 March 1970
13	LCDR Jay Phillip Dorfer, USN	20 Match 1970 - 4 June 1971
14	LT Ronald W. Harding, USN	4 June 1971 - 11 August 1972
15	LT Richard M. Currier, USN	11 August 1972 - 3 March 1974
16	LT Thomas Stephen O'Keefe, Jr., USN	3 March 1974 - 10 April 1976
17	LT Charles T. Ristoricelli, USN	10 April 1976 - 8 July 1977
18	LCDR Howard David Kirkpatrick, USN	8 July 1977 - 10 August 1979
19	CDR John Guy Strohaker, USN	10 August 1979 - 1 May 1982
20	CDR Philip Francis Shullo, Jr., USN	1 May 1982 - 14 January 1984
21	LCDR Christopher Edward Weaver, USN - Retired as RADM	14 January 1984 - 19 July 1986
22	LCDR Peter Wynkoop, Jr., USN	19 July 1986 - 20 February 1988
23	LCDR William T. Bassett, USN	20 February 1988 - 15 March 1988
24	CDR John Kirkland Ross, USN	15 March 1988 - 19 September 1988
25	CDR James J. Lobue, USN	19 September 1988 - 24 October 1988
26	LCDR Donald E. Dalton, USN	24 October 1988 - 6 January 1989
27	LCDR James Byron Campbell, USN	6 January 1989 - 15 January 1989
28	CDR John Kirkland Ross, USN	15 January 1989 - 15 February 1989
29	LT Michael Prince, USN	15 February 1989 - 28 April 1989
30	LCDR James Lonail Clark, USN	28 April 1989 - 19 March 1991
31	LCDR Steven Eugene Lehr, USN	19 March 1991 - 30 September 1991
32	LCDR Elliot Powell, Jr., USN	30 September 1991 - 21 February 1992
33	LCDR Murray Alan Hess, Jr., USN	21 February 1992 - 30 June 1993

Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves

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View the Exultant (MSO 441)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Website

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102 Minesweepers (MSO) Oceangoing Minesweepers
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen

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