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AM / MSO-463 Pivot


Pivot served the Navies of the United States and Spain.



Guadalmedina call sign:
Echo - Bravo - India - Xray



Aggressive Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 31 March 1952 by the Wilmington Boat Works, Wilmington, CA; Launched, 9 January 1954; Commissioned USS Pivot (AM-463), 12 July 1954; Redesignated MSO-463, 7 Febraury 1955; Decommissioned, 1 Ju;y 1971; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 August 1974; Final Disposition, loaned under the Security Assistance Program to Spain, 1 July 1971 and renamed Guadalmedina (M-42); Purchased by Spain, 1 August 1974; Still in service with Spanish Navy.

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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Pivot 56k - USS Pivot
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Guadalmedina 81k Guadalmedina at Mahón, Balearic Islands, Menorca, Spain. 25 May 1988. Ignacio López

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