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AM / MSO-461 Observer


Aggressive Class Minesweeper: Laid down 20 July 1953 as (AM-461) at Higgins Inc,.Shipyard, New Orleans, LA; Launched 19 October 1954; Reclassified (MSO-461), 7 February 1955; Commissioned USS Observer (MSO-461), 31 August 1955; Decommissioned (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register 1 November 1977 Final Disposition, sold for scrapping 21 July 1979 by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service to Union Minerals and Alloys Corp., New York NY for $20,250.

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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