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Notable (MSO 460)
ex-AM-460



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

  • Laid down 8 June 1953 as AM-460 by Higgins Inc.Shipyard, New Orleans, LA
  • Launched 15 October 1954
  • Reclassified as an Ocean Minesweeper, MSO-460, 7 February 1955
  • Commissioned USS Notable (MSO-460), 8 June 1955
  • Struck from the Navy Register 1 February 1971
  • Sold for scrap 30 August 1971 to Charles Gural of Rahway, NJ for $2,800.

    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 and two .50 cal. machine guns remain
  • Propulsion: Four Packard ID1700 diesel engines, replaced by four Waukasha Motors Co. diesel engines, two shafts, two controllable pitch propellers.
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    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    Notable 93k U.S. Navy photo David Buell
    Notable 87k c. 1958
    Crossing the Atlantic
    Photo by John Pritchard, USS Salute (MSO 470)     		Tom Lawson
    Notable 101k c. 1963
    Hole in hull after collision with USS Salute (MSO 470)
    Photo by John Pritchard, USS Salute     		Tom Lawson
    Ability, Notable, Rival 115k c. 1966
    Newport, RI
    Outboard of Ability (MSO-519) and Rival (MSO-468)    		 © Richard Leonhardt
    Notable 80k c. 1968
    Observer (MSO 461) outboard of Notable.
    Photo by EN3 Frank Bosler    		 Tom Lawson
    Notable 150k c. December 1968
    Photo taken from USS Traverse County (LST 1160)
    Photo by Jerry Search    		 ©Jerry Search
    View the Notable (MSO-460)
    DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site
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