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AM / MSO-421 Agile


Agile Class Minesweeper: Laid down as (AM-421), 22 February 1954 at Luders Marine Construction Co., Stamford Conn.; Redesigned (MSO-421), 5 February 1955; Launched 19 November 1955; Commissioned USS Agile (MSO-421), 21 June 1956 at New York Naval Shipyard; Decommissioned 28 July 1972 at Charleston SC; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Norfolk Group; Struck from the Naval Register September 1977; Final Disposition, sold for scrapping February 1980 to Union Minerals and Alloys Corp for $35,000.

Specifications: Displacement 755 t; Length 172'; Beam 35'; Draft 10'; Speed 14 kts; Complement eight Officers, 70 Enlisted; Armament one single 40mm gun mount, two .50 cal. machine guns; Propulsion, diesel.
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