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Affray (MSO-511)



Call sign:
November - Oscar - Alpha - Lima
Acme Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 24 August 1955 at Frank L. Sample, Jr., Inc., Boothbay Harbor, Maine; Launched, 18 December 1956; Commissioned USS Affray (MSO-511), 8 December 1958; Decommissioned, 20 December 1992; Struck from the Navy Register 28 June 1993; Laid up at the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility, Portsmouth, VA.; Sold for scrap 4 December 2000 to Baltimore Marine Industries of Baltimore, MD.

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.

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Affray 59k - 102 Minesweeper Web Site Dick Lewis
Affray 56k . Robert Hurst
Affray 206k 23 March 1960
U.S. Navy photo 1047514 from the U.S. Naval Photographic Center, Anacostia, Washington, DC		 David Buell
Exploit/Affray 69k 1 December 1982
A starboard view of the ocean minesweepers USS Exploit (MSO-440) and Affray moored at Naval Station Newport, RI. The minesweepers are part of the Naval Reserve Mobilization Forces. The Newport Bridge (renamed Pell Bridge) is in the background.
Defense Visual Information Center photo DN-ST-83-11429 by JO2 Lance Johnson		 Defense Visual Information Center
Affray 48k c. December 2000.
Awaiting scrapping at Baltimore, MD.		 Save An MSO Web Site
Rick Szpyrka, Richard Lewis, and Al Hines
Exultant/Affray 49k c. December 2000.
Awaiting scrapping at Baltimore, MD.		 Save An MSO Web Site
Rick Szpyrka, Richard Lewis, and Al Hines
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DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
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102 Minesweepers (MSO) Oceangoing Minesweepers
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
Navy MSO Association
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