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- Code Number:
- MYNV04P11_07.1703
- Title:
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USS Implicit (MSO 455), ex-AM-455, Aggressive Class Minesweeper
- Laid down: 29/10/1952
Builder: Wilmington Boat Works, Wilmington, California Launched: 01/08/1953 Commissioned USS Implicit (AM-455): 10/03/1954 Redesignated as an Ocean Minesweeper: MSO-455, 07/02/1955 Decommissioned: 30/09/1994 and sold to Taiwan the same day under the Security Assistance Program: Renamed Yung Yang (M 1306) Struck from the Naval Register: 20/11/1994 Fate unknown Displacement 775 t Length 172 feet Beam: 35 feet Draft: 12 feet Speed: 14 knots Complement: 78 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, replaced by four Waukasha Motors Co. diesels, controllable pitch propellers, two shafts
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Navy, Military, Armament, Killingry, Weaponry, warfare, Naval, Weapon, Maritime, History, Archives, Historic, Armed Force
- Image by:
- Wernher Krutein
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- Code Number:
- MYNV04P11_07.1703
- Title:
-
USS Implicit (MSO 455), ex-AM-455, Aggressive Class Minesweeper
- Laid down: 29/10/1952
Builder: Wilmington Boat Works, Wilmington, California
Launched: 01/08/1953
Commissioned USS Implicit (AM-455): 10/03/1954
Redesignated as an Ocean Minesweeper: MSO-455, 07/02/1955
Decommissioned: 30/09/1994 and sold to Taiwan the same day under the Security Assistance Program: Renamed Yung Yang (M 1306)
Struck from the Naval Register: 20/11/1994
Fate unknown
Displacement 775 t
Length 172 feet
Beam: 35 feet
Draft: 12 feet
Speed: 14 knots
Complement: 78
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, replaced by four Waukasha Motors Co. diesels, controllable pitch propellers, two shafts
- Keywords:
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Navy, Military, Armament, Killingry, Weaponry, warfare, Naval, Weapon, Maritime, History, Archives, Historic, Armed Force
- Image by:
- Wernher Krutein
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