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Exultant (MSO-441)
ex-AM-441



Call sign:
November - Juliet - Quebec - Mike
Aggressive Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 22 May 1952 at Higgins Inc., New Orleans, LA; Launched, 6 June 1953; Commissioned USS Exultant (AM-441), 31 March 1954; Reclassified as an Ocean Minesweeper,
MSO-441, 7 February 1955; Decommissioned, 30 June 1993; Laid up in the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility, Portsmouth, VA; Struck from the Naval Register, 9 March 1994; Sold for scrap 4 December 2000 to Baltimore Marine Industries, Baltimore, MD.

Specifications: Displacement 775 t; Length 172'; Beam 35'; Draft 12'; Speed 14 kts; Complement 78; 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, replaced by four Waukesha Motors Co. diesels, controllable pitch propellers, two shafts.

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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 (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
Exultant 115k . Jerry Crow, ETR2 Crew member 1973/74
Exultant 100k c. mid-1960s
U.S. Navy photo		 Robert M. Cieri
Exultant 110k c. 1980s
Wilmington NC		 Al Hines
Exultant/Affray 48k c. December 2000. Awaiting scrapping at Baltimore, MD. Save An MSO Web Site
Rick Szpyrka, Richard Lewis, and Al Hines
Exultant/Affray 49k c. December 2000. Awaiting scrapping at Baltimore, MD. Save An MSO Web Site
Rick Szpyrka, Richard Lewis, and Al Hines
View the Exultant (MSO 441)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
Navy MSO Association Email Addresses
Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
102 Minesweepers (MSO) Oceangoing Minesweepers
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
Navy MSO Association
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