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U.S.S. SAGACITY
(MSO-469)NIGHT OWL DIVISION
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USS SAGACITY (MSO-469) - an Aggressive-class minesweeper
In Commission 1955 to 1970MSO-469 Deployments - Major Events
Add a MSO-469 Shellback Initiation | Add a MSO-469 Deployment - Major Event | ||||
Month | Year | to | Month | Year | Deployment / Event |
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OCT | 1952 | - | Keel Date: 6 OCT 1952 | ||
FEB | 1954 | - | Launch Date: 20 FEB 1954 | ||
JAN | 1955 | - | Commissioned: 20 JAN 1955 | ||
MAY | 1960 | - | JUN | 1960 | Halifax/Newfoundland Exercises with Canada |
JAN | 1968 | - | JUN | 1968 | Mediterranean |
OCT | 1970 | - | Decommissioned: 1 OCT 1970 |
MSO-469 General Specifications
Complement: 74 Officers and Enlisted
Displacement: 775 tons
Length: 172 feet
Beam: 36 feet
Draft: 10 feet
Flank Speed: 15 knots
USS SAGACITY (MSO-469)
Sagacity (AM-469) was laid down on 6 October 1952 by the Luders Marine Construction Co., Stamford, Conn.; launched on 20 February 1954; sponsored by Mrs. Loretta B. McCue; and commissioned on 20 January 1955, Lt. H. M. Berry in command.
Redesignated MSO-469 on 7
February, Sagacity completed
shakedown training in May, then took up local operations out of her home port, Charleston, S.C. Assigned to Mine Division (MinDiv) 84, she
conducted her first eastern Atlantic-Mediterranean deployment in the fall of 1956. The four-month deployment was followed by a return to minesweeping exercises in
the Caribbean and off the Carolina and Florida coasts.
Biennially deployed to the
Mediterranean for duty with the 6th Fleet from that time until 1967, she
was employed on projects for the Naval Mine
Warfare School at Charleston, the
Mine Defense Laboratory at Panama
City, and the Naval Ordnance Test Facility at Fort Lauderdale during her 2d Fleet duty. Occasionally assigned to
planeguard duty for helicopters from
amphibious assault ships, target towing, and to patrol duties, she was also a unit of the Project Mercury
recovery force in January 1962.
In January 1968, Sagacity
steamed east for her last tour
with the 6th Fleet, spending most of her time in the western Mediterranean. She returned to Charleston in June; and, until March 1970, operated off the
east coast. In March 1970, she
grounded at the entrance to Charleston
harbor, causing extensive damage to her rudders, shafts, screws, keel,
and hull.
Five months later, as the
Navy continued its force level reduction, Sagacity was ordered
inactivated. She was decommissioned and
struck from the Navy list on 1
October 1970.
[Note: The above USS SAGACITY (MSO-469) history may, or may not, contain text provided by crew members of the USS SAGACITY (MSO-469), or by other non-crew members, and text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]