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MSO-496 Venture


Aggressive Class Minesweeper: Laid down 11 January 1955 as (AM-496), at Boward Marine, Fort Lauderdale Fla.; Redesignated (MSO-496), 7 February 1955; Launched 27 November 1956; Commissioned USS Venture (MSO-496), 3 February 1958; Decommissioned 2 August 1971 at Charleston SC; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Norfolk Group; Struck from the Naval Register September 1977; Final Disposition, sold for scrapping 1 May 1978 by Defense Reutililization and Marketing Service to C B Herter, 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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