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AM / MSO-442 Fearless


Courtesy of Mike Smolinski
Aggressive Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 23 July 1952 at Higgins Corp., New Orleans, LA; Launched, 17 July 1953; Commissioned USS Fearless (AM-442), 22 September 1954; Redesignated as an Ocean MinesweeperMSO-442, 7 February 1955; Decommissioned, 23 October 1990; Struck from the Naval Register, 28 October 1990; Laid up in the Reserve Fleet; Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 4 December 1992 to Seawitch Salvage, Baltimore, MD, for $6,000.

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 replaced by one twin 20mm gun mount, 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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Fearless 129k Note damaged bow in this photo 102 Minesweeper
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Dick Lewis
MINDIV-82 120k Ship's of Mine Division Eighty Two prepare to leave Charleston, SC for a Mediterranean deployment. MINDIV-82 ship's from left to right are: Fearless, Avenge (MSO 423), Exultant (MSO 441), the Belgium Minesweeper F. Bovesse (M 909) (ex-MSO-516), and Fidelity (MSO 443).
Photo courtesy of Leroy D. "Mo" Mahoney
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Belgium MSO Web Site

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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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