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NavSource Online: Mine Warfare Vessel Photo Archive

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Acme (MSO-508)

Call sign:
November - Echo - Whiskey - Victor

ex-AM-508

Acme Class Minesweeper: Laid down 16 November 1954 as AM-508 at Frank L. Sample Inc., Boothbay Harbor, Maine; Redesignated an Ocean Minesweeper, MSO-508, 7 February 1955; Launched, 23 June 1955; Commissioned USS Acme (MSO-508), 4 March 1957; Decommissioned, 6 November 1970 at Naval Inactive Ship Facility Long Beach, CA; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet; Struck from the Navy Register 15 May 1976; Sold for scrap 6 January 1977 by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service to Oskco Edwards of Capistrano Beach, CA. for $30,000.

Specifications: Displacement 633 t.(lt) , 750 t.(fl); Length 173'; Beam 36'; Draft 14'; Speed 14 kts; Complement 8 Officers, 70 Enlisted; Armament one 40mm gun mount, two .50 cal. machine guns; Propulsion, four General Motors diesel engines, two shafts, two controllable pitch propellers.

Size	Image Description	Source
61k	-	Dick Lewis 102 Minesweepers web site Courtesy Bill Rouleau
104k	-	Dick Lewis 102 Minesweepers web site Courtesy Bill Rouleau
164k	U.S. Navy photo	Robert M. Cieri
72k	c. 1959/1960 Off Long Beach Naval Shipyard	Captain Don Bodron, USCG, Ret.

View the Acme (MSO-508)
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
102 Minesweepers (MSO) Oceangoing Minesweepers
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
Navy MSO Association

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