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MSO-447 Guide


Aggressive Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 20 February 1953 as (AM-447), at Seattle Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Corp., Seattle, WA; Launched, 17 April 1954; Redesignated (MSO-447), 7 February 1955; Commissioned USS Guide (MSO-447), 15 March 1955; Decommissioned and struck from the Naval Register, 9 July 1972; Sold, 27 January 1974 for scrapping through the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service to Al Kidman, Wilmington, CA., for $26,601.

Specifications: Displacement 630 t.(lt), 755 t.(fl); Length 172'; Beam 35'; Draft 10'; Speed 14 kts; Complement six 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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Guide 72k - USS Guide (MSO-447) Web Site
Harry Westervelt (1960-62)
Guide 105k - USS Guide (MSO-447) Web Site
Albert B. Moore, (1959-61)
Guide 67k - USS Guide (MSO-447) Web Site
Albert B. Moore, (1959-61)

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Crew Contact And Reunion Information
Name: USS Guide MSO 447 Reunion Assn.
Address: 420 Marietta St., Bremen, OH 43107
Phone: (740) 569-7864
Date: Next Reunion To Be Determined.
Place: NONE.
E-mail: kshofter@fairfieldi.com
Web Site: Reunion Web Site
Comments: NONE.

Other Reunion Web Sites
U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
U.S.S. Guide MSO-447
Another USS Guide MSO-447 Web Site
102 Minesweepers (MSO) Oceangoing Minesweepers
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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