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AM / MSO-425 Bulwark


Aggressive Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 12 December 1951 at Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, VA; Launched, 14 March 1953; Commissioned USS Bulwark (AM-425), 12 November 1953; Reclassified as an Ocean Minesweeper MSO-425, 7 February 1955; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, 28 February 1975; Sold for scrapping, 1 May 1980 to R. E. Williams, Torrance CA. for $44,000.

Specifications: Displacement 630 t.(lt), 755 t.(fl); Length 172'; Beam 35'; Draft 10'; Speed 14 kts; Complement six 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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Bold 10k Norfolk Naval Shipyard 102 Minesweepers
Web Site
Dick Lewis
Acadia 87k USS Arcadia (AD 23); Hawkins (DDR 873); McNair (DD 679); Exploit
(MSO 440)
; Bulwark; Aggressive (MSO 42) and Bold (MSO 424).
US Navy Photo from the January 1956 issue of All Hands magazine
Joe Radigan

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