USS Aggressive
Minesweeper of the United States Navy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
USS Aggressive (MSO-422) (originally designated AM-422) was an Agile-class minesweeper. She is the only ship of the United States Navy to be named Aggressive. This was later regarded as a mistake by President John F. Kennedy who stated that the ships should only be employed for "Peace keeping".
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USS Aggressive (MSO-422) | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Aggressive |
Builder | Luders Marine Construction Co., Stamford, Connecticut |
Laid down | 25 May 1951 |
Launched | 4 October 1952 |
Commissioned | 25 November 1953, as AM-422 |
Decommissioned | 2 July 1971 |
Reclassified | MSO-422 (Ocean Minesweeper), 7 February 1955 |
Stricken | 28 February 1975 |
Homeport | Charleston, South Carolina |
Fate | Sold for scrapping, May 1980 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Aggressive-class minesweeper |
Displacement | 853 long tons (867 t) full load |
Length | 172 ft (52 m) |
Beam | 35 ft (11 m) |
Draft | 10 ft (3.0 m) |
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Speed | 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
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Sensors and processing systems | AN/SQQ-14 mine countermeasures sonar |
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She was built by Luders Marine Construction Co. of Stamford, Connecticut, sponsored by Mrs. Stephen M. Archer, and commissioned at Brooklyn, New York, in the New York Naval Shipyard.