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AM / MSO-422 Aggressive


Aggressive Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 25 May 1951 at Luders Marine Construction Co., Stamford, Conn.; Launched, 4 October 1952; Commissioned USS Aggressive (AM-422), 20 November 1953 at Brooklyn Naval Station; Redesignated an Ocean Minesweeper MSO-422, 7 February 1955; Decommissioned, 2 July 1971; Laid up in the Reserve Fleet; Struck from the Naval Register, 28 February 1975; Sold for scrapping to R. E. Williams, Torrance, CA for $44,000, 1 May 1980.

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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Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

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102 Minesweepers (MSO) Oceangoing Minesweepers
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen

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