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AM / MSO-424 Bold


Aggressive Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 12 December 1951 at Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, VA; Launched, 14 March 1952; Commissioned USS Bold (AM-424), 20 September 1953; Reclassified (MSO-424), 7 February 1955; Decommissioned, 1975; Struck from the Naval Register, 28 February 1975; Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 1 June 1981 to Tuscon One Hour Inc., Cincinnati Ohio, for $45,000.

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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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 (MSO 425); Aggressive
(MSO 422)
and Bold.
US Navy Photo from the January 1956 issue of All
Hands magazine.
Joe Radigan
Thrasher 50k . J. Mason
Thrasher 95k Boston, c. 1965. © Richard Leonhardt
Thrasher 102k Naples, Italy. C. 1967. © Richard Leonhardt

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