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Pivot (MSO 463)
ex-AM-463


Pivot served the Navies of the United States and Spain.



Guadalmedina call sign:
Echo - Bravo - India - Xray
Aggressive Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 31 March 1952 by the Wilmington Boat Works, Wilmington, CA; Launched, 9 January 1954; Commissioned USS Pivot (AM-463), 12 July 1954; Reclassified as an Ocean Minesweeper, MSO-463, 7 Febraury 1955; Decommissioned, 1 Ju;y 1971; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 August 1974; Loaned under the Security Assistance Program to Spain 1 July 1971 as Guadalmedina (M-42); Purchased by Spain, 1 August 1974; Still in service with Spanish Navy.

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 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, two shafts, two controllable pitch propellers.

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USS Pivot (MSO 463)
Pivot 56k - USS Pivot
Web Site
Pivot 81k c. 1960
Photos from Paul Milana, EN2		 Tom Lawson
Energy 100k Energy (MSO 436) and Pivot (in background), pass through locks in the Columbia River
U.S. Navy photo from the January 1962 issue of All Hands magazine		 Joe Radigan
Guadalmedina (M-42)
Guadalmedina 81k 25 May 1988
Mahón, Balearic Islands, Menorca, Spain.		 Ignacio López
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