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Observer (MSO 461)
ex-AM-461

Aggressive Class Minesweeper: Laid down 20 July 1953 as AM-461 at Higgins Inc., New Orleans, LA; Launched 19 October 1954; Reclassified as an Ocean Minesweeper, MSO-461, 7 February 1955; Commissioned USS Observer (MSO-461), 31 August 1955; Struck from the Navy Register 1 September 1977; Sold for scrapping 1 April 1979 by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service to Union Minerals and Alloys Corp. of New York, NY for $20,250.

Specifications: Displacement 630 t.(lt), 755 t.(fl); Length 172'; Beam 35'; Draft 10'; Speed 14 kts; Complement 6 Officers, 74 Enlisted; Armament as built, one 40mm gun mount (40mm mount later removed and replaced with two .50 cal. machine guns mounted on the bridge wings); Propulsion, four Packard ID1700 diesel engines, two shafts, two controllable pitch propellers.

Size	Image Description	Source
31k	-	Ronie Mooney and Dick Lewis 102 Minesweepers Web Site
60k	.	Robert Hurst
80k	c. 1968 Observer outboard of Notable (MSO 460) Photo by EN3 Frank Bosler	Tom Lawson

View the Observer (MSO-461)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.

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U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
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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NavSource Online: Mine Warfare Vessel Photo Archive

Observer (MSO 461)ex-AM-461

Observer (MSO 461)
ex-AM-461