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AM / MSO-460 Notable


Aggressive Class Minesweeper: Laid down 8 June 1953 as (AM-460) at Higgins Inc,.Shipyard, New Orleans, LA; Launched 15 October 1954; Reclassified (MSO-460), 7 February 1955; Commissioned USS Notable (MSO-460), 8 June 1955; Decommissioned (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register 1 February 1971; Final Disposition, sold for scrapping 30 August 1971 to Charles Gural, Rehway NJ for $2,800.

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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Notable 150k Photo taken from USS Traverse County LST-1160, December 1968. Photo by Jerry Search.
Ability, Notable, Rival 115k c. 1966, Newport RI
with Ability (MSO-519)
and Rival (MSO-468)
© Richard Leonhardt

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