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AM / MSO-466 Prime


Aggressive Class Minesweeper: Laid down 30 December 1952 at Wilmington Boat Works, Wilmington, CA; Launched 27 May 1954; Commissioned USS Prime (AM-466), 11 October 1954; Reclassified as an Ocean Minesweeper MSO-466, 7 February 1955; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register 1 October 1976; Sold for scrapping 7 January 1977 by the Defense Reuitilization and Marketing Service to Edward Hixson, Los Alamitos, CA for $26,769.

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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Prime 130k - 102 Minesweeper
Web Site
Dick Lewis
Prime 160k - Paul Wamsley
Prime 153k Prime and P2V-7 Neptune on patrol off the coast of Vietnam.
U.S. Navy Photo from the January 1966 issue of All Hands magazine
Joe Radigan

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USS Prime (MSO 466) Website
102 Minesweepers (MSO) Oceangoing Minesweepers
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Association of Minemen
Navy MSO Association

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