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AM / MSO-448 Illusive


Contributed by Mike Smolinski
Aggressive Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 23 October 1951 by tje Martinolich Shipbuilding Co., San Diego, CA; Launched, 12 July 1952; Commissioned USS Illusive (AM-448), 14 November 1953; Redesignated (MSO-448), 7 February 1955; Decommissioned, 30 March 1990; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 June 1990; Sold for scrapping, 9 February 1993 by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service to Sea Witch Salvage, Baltimore, MD, for $12,000

Specifications: Displacement 775 t; Length 172'; Beam 35'; Draft 12'; Speed 14 kts; Complement 8 Officers, 70 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, replaced by four Waukasha Motors Co. diesels, two shafts, two controllable pitch propellers.
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Cape/Illusive 45k Cape (MSI 2) outboard of Illusive at San Francisco, CA. c. 1963. USS Cape (MSI 2) Web Site
Illusive 27k - 102 Minesweeper Web Site
Dick Lewis
Illusive 106k Diver's head toward Illusivein the Persian Gulf, c. fall 1987
DVIC Photo DN-SN-88-01078
Defense Visual Information Center
Illusive 41k Illusive off Sitrah, Bahrain, 26 December 1987. USS Conquest (MSO-488) in background.
DVIC Photo DN-SC-88-03287
Defense Visual Information Center
40k Illusive in foreground with Mount Vernon (LSD-39) in background, Persian Gulf, circa 1987-88.
US Navy Photo
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47k Illusive in foreground with Fearless (MSO 442) and Mount Vernon (LSD-39) in background. Mount Vernon was serving as a support vessel for the minesweepers in the Persian Gulf, 1987-88.
US Navy Photo
Darrell G. Miller USS Mount Vernon

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Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
102 Minesweepers (MSO) Oceangoing Minesweepers
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen

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