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AM / MSO-470 Salute



Call sign:
November - Bravo - Oscar - Papa

Aggressive Class Minesweeper: Laid down as AM-470 at Luders Marine Construction Co., Stamford, Conn; Launched, 14 August 1954; Redesignated as an Ocean Minesweeper MSO-470, 7 February 1955; Commissioned USS Salute (MSO-470), 4 May 1955; Decommissioned, 15 May 1970; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 February 1971; Sold for scrapping in 1971 to Charles Gural, Rahway, NJ., for $1,700.

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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Salute 43k - Al Hines
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Fleet Reserve Association
Navy MSO Association Email Addresses
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USS Salute MSO-470
102 Minesweepers (MSO) Oceangoing Minesweepers
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
USS Salute (MSO 470) Home Page
Navy MSO Association

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