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AM / MSO-467 Reaper


Aggressive Class Minesweeper: Laid down 15 May 1952 at Wilmington Boat Works, Wilmington CA; Launched 25 June 1954; Commissioned USS Reaper (AM-467), 10 Nobember 1954; Redesignated (MSO-467), 7 February 1955; Decommissioned 22 September 1972; Transferred to the Ship Inactivation Maintenence Facility Pacific Reserve Fleet, Vallejo, CA.; Struck from the Naval Register 28 February 1975; Final Disposition, sold for scrapping 7 January 1977 by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service to Edward Hixson, Los Alamitos CA, for $26,769.

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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Reaper 41k - Dick Lewis, 102 Minesweeper
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Courtesty Dave Teems Sr. QMCM USN (Ret)
Reaper 30k c. Spring 1968. Reaper enroute WestPac Deployment. CDR R.C. Kahler, USN (Ret). Former Commanding Officer of Reaper.

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