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Valor (MSO 472)
ex-AM-472



Call sign:
November - Quebec - Sierra - Golf
Aggressive Class Minesweeper: Laid down 28 April 1952 at Burger Boat Co., Manitowoc WI.; Launched 13 May 1953; Commissioned USS Valor
(AM-472), 29 July 1954; Reclassified as an Ocean Minesweeper, MSO-472, 7 February 1955; Decommissioned in July 1970; Struck from the Navy Register 1 February 1971; Sold for scrap to Charles Gural of Rahway, NJ, for $1,700.

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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for full size image		 Size Image Description Source
Valor 14k - 102 Minesweeper
Web Site
Dick Lewis
Al Hines
Avenge 192k Navy Yard Charleston, SC
Avenge (MSO 423) and Valor in Dry Dock		 Robert Hall
Valor 120k c. 1959
Passing through the Strait of Gibraltar while pulling duty with the Belgium Navy
U.S. Navy photo from the September 1960 edition of All Hands magazine		 Joe Radigan
View the Valor (MSO-472)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
Navy MSO Association Email Addresses
Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
A Salute to USS Valor (MSO-472)
102 Minesweepers (MSO) Oceangoing Minesweepers
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
Navy MSO Association
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