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AM / MSO-456 Inflict


Aggressive Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 29 October 1952 at Wilmington Boat Works Inc., Wilmington, CA; Launched, 16 October 1953; Commissioned USS Inflict (AM-456), 11 May 1954; Reclassified (MSO-456), 7 February 1955; Decommissioned, 30 March 1990; Struck from the Naval Register, 23 May 1990; Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 4 December 1992 by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service to Sea Witch Salvage, Baltimore, MD. for $12,000.

Specifications: Displacement 775 t; Length 172'; Beam 35'; Draft 12'; Speed 14 kts; Complement eight 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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Inflict 51k - 102 Minesweeper
Web Site
Dick Lewis
Inflict 82k Note: Fwd gun mount single 40mm-manual Floyd Farrar EM2
crewmember 1958-62
member Naval Minewarfare Assoc.
Inflict 640k c. 1960 Floyd Farrar EM2
crewmember 1958-62
member Naval Minewarfare Assoc.
Inflict 22k summer, 1960, Hong Kong, nested with Loyalty (MSO-457) Photo by Floyd Farrar EM2
crewmember 1958-62
member Naval Minewarfare Assoc.
Inflict 63k c. 1961, Pier 9, Long Beach Naval Station Larry Fugh,
Courtesy Floyd Farrar EM2
crewmember 1958-62
member Naval Minewarfare Assoc.
Inflict 50k July 1962, Off Lahina, Maui Floyd Farrar EM2
crewmember 1958-62
member Naval Minewarfare Assoc.
Inflict 117k Inflict getting underway while an RH-53D Sea Stallion helicopter practices minesweeping techniques in the Persian Gulf,
December 1987.
DVIC Photo DN-SN-0385c.
Defense Visual Information Center

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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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