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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; Decommissioned, (date unknown); 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 8 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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Nimble 169k - 102 Minesweeper
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Dick Lewis
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
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