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AM / MSO-429 Detector


Contributed by Mike Smolinski
Dash Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 1 October 1951 at Astoria Marine Construction Co., Astoria, Oregon; Launched, 5 December 1952; Commissioned USS Detector (AM-429), 26 January 1953; Reclassified as an Ocean Minesweeper (nonmagnetic) MSO-429, 7 February 1955; Decommissioned, 2 October 1982; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 December 1983; Sold for scrapping, 26 January 1984 to Wayne Hobbs, Huntington, CA, for $22,229.

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 General Motors diesel engines, two shafts, two controllable pitch propellers.


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Detector 41k - Tom Sparkman
Detector 34k - Tom Sparkman

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