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AM / MSO-439 Excel


Contributed by Mike Smolinski
Aggressive Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 9 February 1953 as (AM-439) at Higgins Corp., New Orleans, LA; Launched, 25 September 1953; Redesignated (MSO-439), 7 February 1955; Commissioned USS Excel (MSO-439), 24 February 1955; Decommissioned, 30 September 1992; Struck from the Naval Register, 28 March 1994; Laid up in the Reserve Fleet; Final Disposition, sold for scrapping to Crowley Marine, January 2000.

Specifications: Displacement 775 t; Length 172'; Beam 35'; Draft 12'; Speed 14 kts; Complement 8 Officers, 70 Enlisted; Armament, as built, one single 40mm gun mount, two .50 cal. machine guns, final configuration, bow gun removed, two .50 cal. machine guns remain; Propulsion, four Packard ID1700 diesel engines, replaced by four Waukasha Motors Co. diesels, two shafts, two controllable pitch propellers.
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Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
102 Minesweepers (MSO) Oceangoing Minesweepers
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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