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Lucid (MSO-458)
ex-AM-458



Call sign:
November - India - Lima - Whiskey
Aggressive Class Minesweeper: Laid down 16 March 1953 as AM-458 by the Higgins Shipyard, Inc., New Orleans, LA; Launched, 14 November 1953; Reclassified as an Ocean Minesweeper, MSO-458, 7 February 1955; Commissioned USS Lucid (MSO-458), 4 May 1955; Struck from the Navy Register 15 May 1976; Sold for scrap 30 December 1976 by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service to W. Dean Kirkpatrick, San Francisco, CA for $40,250. On 13 June 2005 the MSO-458 was donated to the "Save An MSO Foundation."

Specifications: Displacement 775 t; Length 172'; Beam 35'; Draft 12'; Speed 14 kts; Complement eight officers, 70 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, replaced by four Waukasha Motors Co. diesels, two shafts, two controllable pitch propellers.

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USS Lucid (MSO 458)
Lucid 118k - 102 Minesweeper
Web Site
Dick Lewis
Lucid 69k Color photo from Dan Keller. Tom Lawson
Lucid 122k Lucid entering the dry dock Windsor (ARD 22) at Subic Bay, Philippines
U.S. Navy photo from the April 1968 edition of All Hands magazine.		 Joe Radigan
Lucid (MSO 458)
Lucid 80k 23 May 1972
Mare Island Reserve Facility
Lucid and the Advance (MSO-510), along with two other unidentified Aggressive class minesweepers. In the background can be seen the mothballed Markab (AR-23)
Photo from "Warship Boneyards," by Kitt and Carolyn Bonner		 Robert Hurst
Lucid 59k 6 August 2000
This has been confirmed as being the Lucid. The hull number is pretty clear from on-scene observation. The "58" is clear on the starboard and the "4" is clear on the port side. Supposedly scrapped in 1977 (Scrap sale 30 December 1976) by W. Dean Kirkpatrick, San Francisco, CA, $40,250.		 "The Silent Defenders."
View the Lucid (MSO-458)
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
USS Lucid MSO-458 Project
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