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AM / MSO-495 Swerve


Courtesy of Mike Smolinski
Aggressive Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 20 December 1954 as AM-495 at Boward Marine, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Redesignated MSO-495, 7 February 1955; Launched, 1 November 1955; Commissioned USS Swerve (MSO-495), 27 July 1957; Decommissioned, 1 July 1971; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Sold for scrapping by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service, 1 February 1978.

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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Swerve 34k - Tom Sparkman

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