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Crest courtesy of Al Hines. Right patch courtesy of Mike Smolinski

AM / MSO-509 Adroit


Acme Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 18 November 1954 as (AM-509) at Frank L. Sample, Inc., Boothbay Harbor, Maine; Launched, 20 August 1953; Reclassified (MSO-509), 7 February 1955; Commissioned USS Adroit (MSO-509), 4 March 1957; Decommissioned, 12 December 1991; Struck from the Naval Register, 8 May 1992; Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 15 April 1994 by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service to Wilmington Resources, Inc, Wilmington, NC.

Specifications: Displacement 633 t.(lt) , 750 t.(fl); Length 173'; Beam 36'; Draft 14'; Speed 14 kts; Complement eight officers, 70 enlisted; Armament one 40mm gun mount, two .50 cal. machine guns; Propulsion, four General Motors diesel engines, two shafts, two controllable pitch propellers.
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Adroit 38k Valleta, Malta Al Hines
USS Adroit
Web Site
Adroit 33k c. 1981 Wilmington, NC Al Hines
USS Adroit
Web Site
Adroit 69k Seen here during operation Desert Storm, off Kuwait 102 Minesweepers Web Site
and Piet Sinke
Adroit 61k Persian Gulf, 1 December 1990.
US Navy photo by PH2 Burge
Al Hines
USS Adroit
Web Site
Adroit 84k - Ray Mailhot via
Al Hines
USS Adroit Web Site
Adroit 70k - Ray Mailhot via
Al Hines
USS Adroit Web Site
Adroit 68k Adroit sits aboard the Dutch heavy lift ship Super Servant 4 at Norfolk, VA, 14 November 1991 as the ship`s deck is submerged to permit her unloading. Super Servant 4 carried her to Norfolk from the Persian Gulf region, where she was deployed for 14 months in support of Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm. Defense Visual Information Center
PH3 Paul A. Hawthorne
Adroit 118k Adroit ties up at the pier in Norfolk, VA after being unloaded from the Dutch heavy lift Super Servant 4, 14 November 1991. Defense Visual Information Center
PHAN Christopher L. Ryan

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DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site. The main archive for the DANFS Online Project.

Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
USS Adroit MSO-509
102 Minesweepers (MSO) Oceangoing Minesweepers
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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