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AM / MSO-465 Prestige

Prestige grounded and abandoned 23 August 1958

Aggressive Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 15 April 1952 at Wilmington Boat Works Inc., Wilmington, CA; Launched, 30 April 1954; Commissioned USS Prestige (AM-465), 11 September 1954; Redesignated (MSO-465), 7 February 1955. Lost due to grounding, 23 August 1958, Naruto Straits, Inland Sea, Japan. Abandoned as a total loss. Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown).

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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Prestige 123k Taken in Long Beach in late 1957. Note that she is in her original MSO configuration with a short stack and a boom for handling the motor whaleboat. Photo courtesy of Jerry Tallent Save An MSO Web Site
Dick Lewis

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