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AM / MSO-494 Sturdy


Aggressive Class Minesweeper: Laid down 15 October 1954 as AM-494 at Boward Marine, Fort Lauderdale Fla.; Redesignated an Ocean Minesweeper MSO-494, 7 February 1955; Launched 28 January 1956; Commissioned USS Sturdy (MSO-494), 23 October 1967; Decommissioned 1 July 1972 at Charleston, SC; Towed to Inactive Ship Facility, Norfolk, Va for storage; Struck from the Naval Register 1 September 1977; Sold for scrapping 1 May 1987 by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service to C. B. Herter, Jr. of Hopewell, VA for $27,019.

Specifications: Displacement 630 t.(lt), 755 t.(fl); Length 172'; Beam 35'; Draft 10'; Speed 14 kts; Complement 6 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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Sturdy 93k - Al Hines
USS Sturdy (MSO-494) Web Site
photo courtesy John L. Love

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Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association
Navy MSO Association Email Addresses
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102 Minesweepers (MSO) Oceangoing Minesweepers
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
USS Sturdy (MSO 494) Home Page
Navy MSO Association
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