USS Implicit (MSO 455), ex-AM-455, Navy, Military, Photo

Code Number:: MYNV04P11_08.1703
Title:: USS Implicit (MSO 455), ex-AM-455, Aggressive Class Minesweeper; Laid down: 29 October 1952
Builder: Wilmington Boat Works, Wilmington, CA
Launched: 1/08/1953
Commissioned USS Implicit (AM-455): 10/03/1954
Redesignated as an Ocean Minesweeper: MSO-455, 7/02/1955
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'
Beam: 35'
Draft: 12'
Speed: 14 kts
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:: Navy, Military, Armament, Killingry, Weaponry, warfare, Naval, Weapon, Maritime, History, Archives, Historic, Armed Force
Image by:: Wernher Krutein
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