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AM / MSO-464 Pluck


Mike Smolinski
Aggressive Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 31 March 1952 at Wilmington Boat Works Inc., Wilmington, CA; Launched, 6 February 1954; Commissioned USS Pluck (AM-464), 11 August 1954; Redesignated (MSO-464), 7 February 1955; Decommissioned, 29 November 1990; Struck from the Naval Register, 16 January 1991; Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 25 September 1992 by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service to Northwest Demolition Inc., Wilsonville, Oregon for $19,000.

Specifications: Displacement 775 t; Length 172'; Beam 35'; Draft 12'; Speed 14 kts; Complement eight 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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Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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