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Nimble (MSO 459)
ex-AM-459



Call sign:
November - Mike - Kilo - Yankee
Aggressive Class Minesweeper:

  • Laid down 27 April 1953 as AM-459 by Higgins Inc., New Orleans, LA
  • Launched 6 August 1954
  • Commissioned USS Nimble (MSO-459), 11 May 1955
  • Struck from the Naval Register 1 November 1976
  • Sold for scrapping 6 September 1981 by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service to Tuscon One Hour Inc., Cincinnati, OH, for $45,002.

    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
  • Propulsion: Four Packard ID1700 diesel engines, replaced by four Waukasha Motors Co. diesels, two shafts, two controllable pitch propellers.
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    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    Nimble 234k c. 1958
    Photo by Skyfotos from the 1958/1959 edition of Jane's Fighting Ships    		 Original photo: 102 Minesweeper
    Web Site Dick Lewis
    Replacement photo: Robert Hurst
    Nimble 382k These minesweepers look smart and sturdy as they execute coordinated movements in training. Shown are USS Skill
    (MSO 471)    , Nimble, USS Pinnacle (MSO 462) and USS Sagacity (MSO 469).
    U.S. Navy photo from the April 1960 edition of All Hands magazine    		 Joe Radigan
    View the Nimble (MSO-459)
    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
    Association of Minemen
    Navy MSO Association
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