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AM / MSO-456 Inflict



Call sign:
November - Lima - Yankee - Oscar




Patches from left to right courtesy of Mike Smolinski (both on left), Floyd Farrar, and Roy Makin

Aggressive Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 29 October 1952 at Wilmington Boat Works Inc., Wilmington, CA; Launched, 16 October 1953; Commissioned USS Inflict (AM-456), 11 May 1954; Reclassified (MSO-456), 7 February 1955. Inflict changed divisions in September 1967 and became a part of Mine Division 71. The division consisted of: Dynamic
(MSO 432), Engage (MSO 433), Impervious (MSO 449)
, Inflict and Fortify (MSO 446). Decommissioned, 30 March 1990; Struck from the Naval Register, 23 May 1990; Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 4 December 1992 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 eight 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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Inflict 51k - 102 Minesweeper
Web Site
Dick Lewis
Inflict 82k Note: Fwd gun mount single 40mm-manual Floyd Farrar EM2
crewmember 1958-62
member Naval Minewarfare Assoc.
Inflict 640k c. 1960 Floyd Farrar EM2
crewmember 1958-62
member Naval Minewarfare Assoc.
Inflict 22k Summer, 1960.
Hong Kong, nested with Loyalty (MSO-457)
Photo by Floyd Farrar EM2
crewmember 1958-62
member Naval Minewarfare Assoc.
Inflict 108k c. 1960.
Off the Southern California coast.
Floyd Farrar
Inflict 76k c. Mid-1960s.
Moves away after ship to ship transfer of Packard engine head to Dynamic (MSO 432)
Photo by George Arthur
Floyd Farrar
Inflict 71k c. Mid-1960s.
Moves away
Photo by George Arthur
Floyd Farrar
Inflict 70k c. Mid-1960s.
Photo by George Arthur
Floyd Farrar
Inflict 63k c. 1961.
Pier 9, Long Beach Naval Station
Larry Fugh,
Courtesy Floyd Farrar EM2
crewmember 1958-62
member Naval Minewarfare Assoc.
Inflict 79k c. 1962. Off Seal Beach, CA.
Photo by George Arthur
Floyd Farrar
Inflict 50k July 1962.
Off Lahina, Maui
Floyd Farrar EM2
crewmember 1958-62
member Naval Minewarfare Assoc.
Inflict 91k c. Fall-1962.
Off Seal Beach, CA
Floyd Farrar
MINDIV71 68k c. Fall-1962.
Mine Division 71 off Long Beach breakwater
Floyd Farrar
Inflict 116k c. August 1962.
Readies for ship to ship transfer with Dynamic (MSO 432)
Photo by George Arthur
Floyd Farrar
Inflict 117k c. December 1987.
Inflict getting underway while an RH-53D Sea Stallion helicopter practices minesweeping techniques in the Persian Gulf.
DVIC Photo DN-SN-0385c.
Defense Visual Information Center

View the Inflict (MSO-456)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site. The main archive for the DANFS Online Project.

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

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

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