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AM / MSO-457 Loyalty

Courtesy of Paul Haaze
Aggressive Class Minesweeper: Laid down 9 November 1951 at Wilmington Boat Works, Inc., Wilmington CA; Launched 22 November 1953; Commissioned USS Loyalty (AM-457), 11 June 1954; Redesignated as an Ocean Minesweeper MSO-457, 7 February 1955; Decommissioned (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register 1 July 1972; Sold for scrapping by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service to Robert D. Perry, Vallejo, CA., 15 January 1974, for $32,223.
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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Photo from "Jane's Fighting Ships" |
Floyd Farrar crewmember 1958-62 member Naval Minewarfare Assoc. |
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USS Loyalty Web Site Robert Gladwin |
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c. 1962. Off Long Beach, CA. Photo by George Arthur |
Floyd Farrar |
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c. 1969-70, off the coast of South Vietnam, Loyalty approaching Niagara Falls (AFS-3) for replenishment. |
Photo by William P. Jones, Medical Officer USS Niagara Falls (AFS-3) |
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