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MSO-510 Advance


Acme Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 28 June 1955 at Frank L Sample Jr. Inc., Boothbay Harbor, Maine; Launched, 12 July 1956; Commissioned USS Advance (MSO-510), 16 June 1958; Decommissioned, December 1970; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Mare Island Group; Struck from the Naval Register, 15 May 1976; Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 6 January 1977 to Oskco Edwards, Capistrano Beach CA. for $40,010. Advance (MSO 510) earned five battle stars for Vietnam service.

Specifications: Displacement 633 t.(lt) , 750 t.(fl); Length 173'; Beam 36'; Draft 14'; Speed 14 kts; Complement 8 Officers, 70 Enlisted; Armament one 40mm gun mount, two .50cal machine guns; Propulsion, four GM diesel engines, two shafts, two controllable pitch propellers.
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Advance 99k - 102 Minesweeper web site
Dick Lewis
Advance 22k Photo taken November 1999
near Stockton, CA. Supposedly
scrapped in 1977
© Larry Sanderson

View the Advance (MSO-510)
DANFS history entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway web site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project
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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