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AM / MSO-425 Bulwark


Aggressive Class Minesweeper: Laid down 12 December 1951 at Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth VA; Launched 14 March 1953; Commissioned USS Bulwark (AM-425), 12 November 1953; Reclassified (MSO-425), 7 February 1955; Decommissioned (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register 28 February 1975; Final Disposition, sold for scrapping 1 May 1980 to R E Williams, Torrance CA. for $44,000.

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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