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AM / MSO-424 Bold
Aggressive Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 12 December 1951 at Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, VA; Launched, 14 March 1952; Commissioned USS Bold (AM-424), 20 September 1953; Reclassified (MSO-424), 7 February 1955; Decommissioned, 1975; Struck from the Naval Register, 28 February 1975; Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 1 June 1981 to Tuscon One Hour Inc., Cincinnati Ohio, for $45,000.
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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10k |
Norfolk Naval Shipyard |
102 Minesweepers Web Site. Dick Lewis. |
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50k |
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J. Mason |
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95k |
Boston, c. 1965. |
© Richard Leonhardt |
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102k |
Naples, Italy. C. 1967. |
© Richard Leonhardt |
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