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AM / MSO-471 Skill


Aggressive Class Minesweeper: Laid down 17 August 1953 as (AM-471), at Luders Marine Construction Co., Stamford, Conn; Redesignated (MSO-471), 7 February 1955; Commissioned USS Skill (MSO-471), 7 November 1955; Decommissioned October 1970; Assigned to the Beaumont Tx., Group of the Atlantic Reserve Fleet; Struck from the Naval Register 1 September 1977; Sold for scrapping by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Serevice sale 1 April 1979.

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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