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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
  • Reclassified as 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 and 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 78
  • Armament: One 40mm gun mount and two .50 cal. machine guns
  • Propulsion: Four General Motors diesel engines, two shafts, two controllable pitch propellers.
    Click on thumbnail
    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    Acme 61k Courtesy of Bill Rouleau Dick Lewis
    102 Minesweepers website
    Acme 104k
    Acme 164k U.S. Navy photo Robert M. Cieri
    Acme 72k c. 1959/1960
    Off Long Beach Naval Shipyard    		 Captain Don Bodron, USCG, Ret.
    Commanding Officers
    01LT James Warren Faust, USN27 September 1956
    03LCDR Earle L. West, USN1958 - 14 July 1959
    05LCDR Wayne Lee Zimmerman, USN14 July 1960
    07LCDR John Louden Beck, USN1964 - 1966
    08LCDR Merlin Kent Overholser, USN1966 - 1968
    10CDR Albert Parren Johnson, USNOctober 1969 - 10 March 1970
    110LCDR Donald Andrew Stoufer, USN10 March 1970 - 6 November 1970
    Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves
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    DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Website
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