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AM / MSO-441 Exultant


Contributed by Mike Smolinski
Aggressive Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 22 May 1952 at Higgins Inc., New Orleans, LA; Launched, 6 June 1953; Commissioned USS Exultant (AM-441), 31 March 1954; Reclassified as an Ocean MinesweeperMSO-441, 7 February 1955; Decommissioned, 30 June 1993; Laid up in the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility, Portsmouth, VA; Struck from the Naval Register, 9 March 1994; Sold, 4 December 2000 to Baltimore Marine Industries, Baltimore, MD for scrapping.

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 Waukesha Motors Co. diesels, two shafts, two controllable pitch propellers.
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MINDIV-82 120k Ship's of Mine Division Eighty Two prepare to leave Charleston, SC for a Mediterranean deployment. MINDIV-82 ship's from left to right are: Fearless (MSO 442), Avenge (MSO 423), Exultant, the Belgium Minesweeper F. Bovesse (M 909) (ex-MSO-516), and Fidelity (MSO 443).
Photo courtesy of Leroy D. "Mo" Mahoney
Official US Navy Photo
Belgium MSO Web Site
Exultant 110k c. 1980s
Wilmington NC
Al Hines
Exultant/Affray 48k c. December 2000. Awaiting scrapping at Baltimore, MD. Save An MSO Web Site
Rick Szpyrka, Richard Lewis, and Al Hines
Exultant/Affray 49k c. December 2000. Awaiting scrapping at Baltimore, MD. Save An MSO Web Site
Rick Szpyrka, Richard Lewis, and Al Hines

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Naval Minewarfare Association
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