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U.S.S. CONFLICT
(MSO-426)WOODEN SHIPS - IRON MEN
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USS CONFLICT (MSO-426) - an Aggressive-class minesweeper
In Commission 1954 to 1973MSO-426 Deployments - Major Events
Add a MSO-426 Shellback Initiation | Add a MSO-426 Deployment - Major Event | ||||
Month | Year | to | Month | Year | Deployment / Event |
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AUG | 1951 | - | Keel Date: 13 AUG 1951 at Fulton Shipyard Antioch CA | ||
DEC | 1952 | - | Launch Date: 16 DEC 1952 | ||
MAR | 1954 | - | Commissioned: 23 MAR 1954 | ||
JAN | 1962 | - | AUG | 1962 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
SEP | 1967 | - | MAY | 1968 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
JAN | 1968 | - | JAN | 1970 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
JUL | 1971 | - | DEC | 1971 | West Pac |
JUL | 1971 | - | DEC | 1971 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
JUL | 1971 | - | FEB | 1972 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
JUL | 1971 | - | FEB | 1972 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
JUL | 1971 | - | FEB | 1972 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
AUG | 1971 | - | MAY | 1972 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
AUG | 1971 | - | MAY | 1972 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
JUN | 1972 | - | JUN | 1972 | Decommisioning |
JAN | 1973 | - | Decommissioned: 12 JAN 1973 |
MSO-426 General Specifications
Class: Aggressive-class minesweeper
Complement: 72 Officers and Enlisted
Displacement: 630 tons
Length: 172 feet
Beam: 36 feet
Draft: 10 feet
Final Disposition: Sold for scrapping 1973
USS CONFLICT (MSO-426)
The second Conflict (AM-426)
was launched 16 December 1952 by Fulton Shipyard, Antioch, Calif.; sponsored by Mrs. E. T. Aldrich, wife of Captain
Aldrich; commissioned 23 March 1954,
Lieutenant R. Y. Scott in command; and
reported to the Pacific Fleet.
Conflict operated on the west coast between 12 April 1954
and 4 January 1956, conducting acoustic ranging experiments, noise reduction experiments, and removing practice mine fields. She was reclassified MSO-426
on 7 February 1955. She sailed from Long Beach 4 January 1956 for Pearl Harbor, where between 15 January
and 20 February, she conducted
underwater photography operations. She
returned to Long Beach 1 March, and
during April conducted shock tests off San Clemente Island. Conflict joined harbor defense
exercises at San Diego and carried
out other local operations until 5 August
1957, when she sailed from Long Beach for Pearl Harbor, Midway, and Yokosuka,
arriving 31 August. She operated in
Japanese waters, called at Hong Kong,
and joined ships of the Republic of China in minesweeping exercises off
Formosa, returning to Long Beach 1 March for west coast operations during the remainder of the year. She returned to duty in
the Far East 14 March 1960, calling
at Manila, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and
Japanese ports before sailing for the west coast 24 June. Local operations were
resumed through the remainder of
1960.
[Note: The above USS CONFLICT (MSO-426) history may, or may not, contain text provided by crew members of the USS CONFLICT (MSO-426), or by other non-crew members, and text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]