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MSO-519 Ability


Ability Class Minesweeper: Lead ship of the Ability Class Minesweepers; Laid down, 5 March 1956 at Peterson Builders, Inc., Sturgeon Bay, WI.; Launched 29 December 1956; Commissioned USS Ability (MSO-519), 4 August 1958 at Boston Naval Shipyard, Boston MA.; Decommissioned June 1970; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 February 1971; Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 3 January 1972 to Union Minerals and Alloys, New York, NY, for $17,688.

Specifications: Displacement 750 t; Length 173'; Beam 36'; Draft 14'; Speed 14 kts; Complement 5 Officers, 80 Enlisted; Armament one 40mm gun mount, two .50 cal machine guns; Propulsion, four GM diesel engines, two shafts, two controllable pitch propellers.
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Ability 126k - 102 Minesweeper
Web Site
Dick Lewis
Ability 80k Ability (MSO-519) underway near Charleston Naval Shipyard, 23 March 1959
US Navy photo NH 96645.
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Ability, Notable, Rival 115k c. 1966, Newport RI
with Notable (MSO-460)
and Rival (MSO-468)
© Richard Leonhardt
Ability 87k c. 1966. Randy Boyle BM3/USN.

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