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Prestige (MSO-465)
ex-AM-465

Grounded and abandoned 23 August 1958
Aggressive Class Minesweeper:

  • Laid down, 15 April 1952 by Wilmington Boat Works Inc., Wilmington, CA
  • Launched, 30 April 1954
  • Commissioned USS Prestige (AM-465), 11 September 1954
  • Reclassified as an Ocean Minesweeper, MSO-465, 7 February 1955
  • Grounded 23 August 1958 in Naruto Straits, Inland Sea, Japan and abandoned as a total loss.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 630 t.(lt), 755 t.(fl)
  • Length 172'
  • Beam 35'
  • Draft 10'
  • Speed 14 kts.
  • Complement 80
  • Armament: As built, one 40mm gun mount and two .50 cal machine guns, final configuration, bow gun replaced by one twin 20mm gun mount, two .50 cal. machine guns remained
  • Propulsion: Four Packard ID1700 diesel engines, two shafts, two controllable pitch propellers.
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    Prestige 140k . Russ Padden
    Prestige 123k Taken in Long Beach in late 1957. Note that she is in her original MSO configuration with a short stack and a boom for handling the motor whaleboat. Photo courtesy of Jerry Tallent Save An MSO Web Site
    Dick Lewis
    Prestige 343k Prestige hard aground Naruto Straits, Inland Sea of Japan 23 Aug 1958.
    Photos from BM2 Ernie Shea, USS Current (ARS 22)    		 Tom Lawson
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