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Aggressive (AM / MSO 422)
Aggressive Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 25 May 1951 at Luders Marine Construction Co., Stamford, Conn.; Launched, 4 October 1952; Commissioned USS Aggressive (AM-422), 20 November 1953 at Brooklyn Naval Station, NY; Redesignated an Ocean Minesweeper MSO-422, 7 February 1955; Decommissioned, 2 July 1971; Laid up in the Reserve Fleet; 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 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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USS Arcadia (AD 23); Hawkins (DDR 873); McNair (DD 679); Exploit (MSO 440); Bulwark (MSO 425); Aggressive and Bold (MSO 424). US Navy Photo from the January 1956 issue of All Hands magazine |
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