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AM / MSO-467 Reaper


Courtesy of Paul Haaze
Aggressive Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 15 May 1952 at Wilmington Boat Works, Wilmington, CA; Launched, 25 June 1954; Commissioned USS Reaper (AM-467), 10 November 1954; Redesignated an Ocean Minesweeper MSO-467, 7 February 1955; Decommissioned, 22 September 1972; Transferred to the Ship Inactivation Maintenance Facility Pacific Reserve Fleet, Vallejo, CA.; Struck from the Naval Register, 28 February 1975; Sold for scrapping, 7 January 1977 by the Defense Reutilization 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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Reaper 41k - Dick Lewis, 102 Minesweeper
Web Site
Courtesy Dave Teems Sr., QMCM, USN, Ret.
Reaper 45k Somewhere in the Pacific Northwest
c. 1960s.
K. Dupree, YNCS, USN, Ret.
Reaper 30k c. Spring 1968. Reaper en route WestPac Deployment. CDR R.C. Kahler, USN, Ret.
Former Commanding Officer of Reaper.

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