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MSO / AG-520 Alacrity


Contributed by Mike Smolinski
Ability Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 5 March 1956 at Peterson Builders, Inc., Sturgeon Bay, WI.; Launched, 8 June 1957; Commissioned USS Alacrity (MSO-521), 1 October 1958 at Boston Naval Shipyard, Boston MA.; Reclassified Miscellaneous Auxiliary (AG-520), 1 June 1973 for sonar testing; Decommissioned, 30 September 1977 at Charleston SC; Struck from the Naval Register, 30 September 1977; Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 28 December 1979 by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service to Ampel Wrecking and Dismantling Corp. for $50,475.

Specifications: Displacement 633 t.(lt) , 750 t.(fl); Length 173'; Beam 36'; Draft 14'; Speed 14 kts; Complement 8 Officers, 70 Enlisted; Armament one 40mm gun mount, two .50cal machine guns; Propulsion, four GM diesel engines, two shafts, two controllable pitch propellers.
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Alacrity 174k - 102 Minesweeper
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Alacrity 88k Off Charleston Naval Shipyard, 17 April 1959
US Navy photo NH 96626
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102 Minesweepers (MSO) Oceangoing Minesweepers
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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