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U.S.S. ENHANCE
(MSO-437)VIGILANCE - READINESS
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USS ENHANCE (MSO-437) - an Aggressive class minesweeper
In Commission 1955 to 1991MSO-437 Deployments - Major Events
Add a MSO-437 Shellback Initiation | Add a MSO-437 Deployment - Major Event | ||||
Month | Year | to | Month | Year | Deployment / Event |
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JUL | 1952 | - | Keel Date: 12 JUL 1952 at Martinolich Shipbuilding Co. San Diego CA | ||
OCT | 1952 | - | Launch Date: 11 OCT 1952 | ||
APR | 1955 | - | Commissioned: 16 APR 1955 | ||
APR | 1958 | - | OCT | 1958 | West Pac |
JAN | 1963 | - | JAN | 1965 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
FEB | 1965 | - | Shellback Initiation - 3 FEB 1965 - Pacific Ocean | ||
APR | 1965 | - | DEC | 1965 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
APR | 1965 | - | DEC | 1965 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
MAR | 1968 | - | APR | 1969 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
FEB | 1969 | - | Shellback Initiation - 18 FEB 1969 - Pacific Ocean | ||
JAN | 1971 | - | JAN | 1973 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
JAN | 1972 | - | OCT | 1973 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
AUG | 1972 | - | JAN | 1974 | West Pac |
JAN | 1973 | - | DEC | 1973 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
SEP | 1973 | - | Shellback Initiation - 9 SEP 1973 - Pacific Ocean | ||
JAN | 1988 | - | DEC | 1991 | West Pac-Indian Ocean-Persian Gulf |
DEC | 1991 | - | Decommissioned: 31 DEC 1991 |
MSO-437 General Specifications
Complement: 74 Officers and Enlisted
Displacement: 620 tons
Length: 172 feet
Beam: 36 feet
Draft: 10 feet
Flank Speed: 16 knots
USS ENHANCE (MSO-437)
Enhance (AM-437) was launched 11 October 1952 by Martinolich Shipbuilding Co. San Diego Calif. sponsored by Mrs. A. C. Martinolich; reclassified MSO-437 7 February 1955; and commissioned 16 April 1955 Lieutenant R. P. Green in command.
From her home port Long Beach Calif. Enhance operated along the west coast on training and exercises in mine warfare. She sailed from Long Beach 1 October 1956 for her first tour of duty with the 7th Fleet in the Far East. During that fall's crisis over the Suez Canal Enhance patrolled in the Sea of Japan recording the movement of shipping as part of the intensified alertness required of the Navy during periods of international tension anywhere in the world. She returned to Long Beach 12 April 1957 and resumed her west coast operations.
During her second Far Eastern deployment
from 2 April 1959 to 16 October
Enhance joined in exercises with minecraft of the navies of the Republics of China and Korea. Returning to west coast operations
on 8 January 1960 she rescued four men from an overturned sailboat off Long Beach. In June 1960 she visited Portland
Oreg. Enhance spent the remainder of the year conducting type training and under overhaul at San Diego.
[Note: The above USS ENHANCE (MSO-437) history may or may not contain text provided by crew members of the USS ENHANCE (MSO-437) or by other non-crew members and text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]