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Swerve (MSO 495)
ex-AM-495



Call sign:
November - Sierra - Foxtrot - Bravo
Aggressive Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 20 December 1954 as AM-495 at Boward Marine, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Reclassified as an Ocean Minesweeper, MSO-495, 7 February 1955; Launched, 1 November 1955; Commissioned USS Swerve (MSO-495), 27 July 1957; Decommissioned, 1 July 1971; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet; Sold for scrap 1 February 1978 by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service.

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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Swerve 34k - Tom Sparkman
Sturdy 266k c. 1950/1960 era
Navy Yard Charleston, SC
Swerve, Adroit (MSO 509), Sturdy (MSO 494) and an unidentified MSO in Dry Dock No, 2. The destroyer Manley (DD 940) and tank landing ship Tallahatchie County (LST 1154) are in the distance.		 Robert Hall
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