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AM / MSO-436 Energy


Energy served the Navies of the United States and the Philippines.

Aggressive Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 3 March 1952 at J. M. Martinac Shipbuilding Co., Tacoma, Wash; Launched, 13 February 1953; Commissioned USS Energy (AM-436), 16 July 1954; Redesignated (MSO-436), 7 February 1955; Decommissioned, 5 July 1977 and loaned to Republic of the Philippines, renamed Davao del Norte (PM 91); Returned to US custody and struck from the Naval Register, 1 July 1977; Sold for scrapping, 8 July 1977 to Ming Hing & Co., Kowloon, Hong Kong, for $26,100.

Specifications: Displacement 630 t.(lt), 755 t.(fl); Length 172'; Beam 35'; Draft 10'; Speed 14 kts; Complement six 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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