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AM / MSO-445 Force

Force was lost to fire 24 April 1973

Aggressive Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 26 August 1952 at J. M. Martinac Shipbuilding Corp., Tacoma, WA; Launched, 26 June 1953; Commissioned USS Force (AM-445), 4 January 1955; Redesignated as an Ocean Minesweeper MSO-445, 7 February 1955; Lost by fire off Guam, 24 April 1973; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown).

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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