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NavSource Online: Mine Warfare Vessel Photo Archive

MSO / AG-520 Alacrity


Contributed by Mike Smolinski
Ability Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 5 March 1956 at Peterson Builders, Inc., Sturgeon Bay, WI.; Launched, 8 June 1957; Commissioned USS Alacrity (MSO-521), 1 October 1958 at Boston Naval Shipyard, Boston, MA.; Reclassified as a Miscellaneous Auxiliary AG-520, 1 June 1973 and used for sonar testing; Decommissioned, 30 September 1977 at Charleston, SC; Struck from the Naval Register, 30 September 1977; Sold for scrapping, 28 December 1979 by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service to Ampel Wrecking and Dismantling Corp. for $50,475.

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 .50cal machine guns; Propulsion, four GM diesel engines, two shafts, two controllable pitch propellers.


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Alacrity 174k - 102 Minesweeper
Web Site
Dick Lewis
Alacrity 88k Off Charleston Naval Shipyard, 17 April 1959
US Navy photo NH 96626
Joe Radigan
Alacrity 72k The sheer walls of Greece's Corinth Canal tower above Sixth Fleet ocean minesweeper USS Alacrity (MSO 520) as she makes her way from the Ionian Sea to Athens with other ships of Mine Division 45.
U.S. Navy photo from the July 1961 issue of All Hands magazine
Joe Radigan

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