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MSO-475
ex-AM-475


AM-475 was built for France



Mytho call sign:
Foxtrot - Alpha - Tango - Romeo
AM-480 Class Fleet Minesweeper:

  • Laid down 3 March 1953 as AM-475 by the Bellingham Shipyards Co., Bellingham, WA
  • Launched 25 September 1953
  • Delivered 1 December 1953
  • Reclassified as an Ocean Minesweeper, MSO-475, 7 February 1955
  • Transferred to France as Mytho (M 618) 20 October 1954
  • Decommissioned 20 January 1988
  • Scrapped 28 September 1989.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 750 t.
  • Length 171'
  • Beam 35'
  • Draft 10' 4"
  • Speed 15 kts.
  • Complement 39
  • Armament: One 40-mm mount and two .50 cal. machine guns
  • Propulsion: Two 800shp General Motors diesel enginess, two shafts (fitted with a bow thruster between 1975 - 1979).
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    MSO-475 96k . Robert Hurst
    MSO-475 105k c. 1969
    French Navy photo
    MSO-475 77k c. 1982
    Brittany, France
    There is no DANFS history available for MSO-475
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