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AM / MSO-458 Lucid


Courtesy of Mike Smolinski
Aggressive Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 16 March 1953 as (AM-458) at Higgins Shipyard, Inc., New Orleans, LA; Launched, 14 November 1953; Redesignated as an Ocean Minesweeper (MSO-458), 7 February 1955; Commissioned USS Lucid (MSO-458), 4 May 1955; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, 15 May 1976; Sold for scrapping 30 December 1976 by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service to W. Dean Kirkpatrick, San Francisco, CA, for $40,250.

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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Lucid 118k - 102 Minesweeper
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Dick Lewis
Lucid 59k This has been confirmed as being the Lucid. The hull number is pretty clear from on-scene observation. The "58" is clear on the starboard and the "4" is clear on the port side. 6 August 2000. Supposedly scrapped in 1977 (Scrap sale 30 December 1976) by W. Dean Kirkpatrick, San Francisco, CA, $40,250. "The Silent Defenders."

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