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Adroit (MSO 509)
ex-AM-509



Call sign:
November - Charlie - Foxtrot - Romeo
Acme Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 18 November 1954 as AM-509 by Frank L. Sample, Inc., Boothbay Harbor, Maine; Launched, 20 August 1953; Reclassified as an Ocean Minesweeper, MSO-509, 7 February 1955; Commissioned USS Adroit (MSO-509), 4 March 1957; Decommissioned, 12 December 1991; Struck from the Navy Register 8 May 1992; Sold for scrap 15 April 1994 by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service to Wilmington Resources, Inc. of Wilmington, NC.

Specifications: Displacement 633 t.(lt) , 750 t.(fl); Length 173'; Beam 36'; Draft 14'; Speed 14 kts; Complement eight 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.

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Adroit 38k Valleta, Malta Al Hines
USS Adroit
Web Site
Sturdy 266k c. 1950/1960 era
Navy Yard Charleston, SC
Swerve (MSO 495), Adroit, 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
Adroit 195k c. 1980s Robert M. Cieri
Adroit 33k c. 1981 Wilmington, NC Al Hines
USS Adroit
Web Site
Adroit 69k Seen here during operation Desert Storm, off Kuwait 102 Minesweepers Web Site
and Piet Sinke
Adroit 61k 1 December 1990
Persian Gulf
U.S. Navy photo by PH2 Burge		 Al Hines
USS Adroit
Web Site
Adroit 84k . Ray Mailhot via
Al Hines
USS Adroit Web Site
Adroit 70k - Ray Mailhot via
Al Hines
USS Adroit Web Site
Adroit 68k 14 November 1991
Adroit sits aboard the Dutch heavy lift ship Super Servant 4 at Norfolk, VA as the ship`s deck is submerged to permit her unloading. Super Servant 4 carried her to Norfolk from the Persian Gulf region, where she was deployed for 14 months in support of Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm.
U.S. Navy photo by PH3 Paul A. Hawthorne 		Defense Visual Information Center
Adroit 118k 14 November 1991
Adroit ties up at the pier in Norfolk, VA after being unloaded from the Dutch heavy lift Super Servant 4.
U.S. Navy photo by PHAN Christopher L. Ryan 		Defense Visual Information Center
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DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
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Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
USS Adroit MSO-509
102 Minesweepers (MSO) Oceangoing Minesweepers
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
USS Adroit (MSO 509) Home Page
Navy MSO Association
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