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U.S.S. ADROIT
(MSO-509)Click to view crew list
USS ADROIT (MSO-509) - an Acme-class minesweeper
In Commission 1957 to 1991MSO-509 Deployments - Major Events
Add a MSO-509 Shellback Initiation | Add a MSO-509 Deployment - Major Event | ||||
Month | Year | to | Month | Year | Deployment / Event |
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NOV | 1954 | - | Keel Date: 18 NOV 1954 | ||
AUG | 1955 | - | Launch Date: 20 AUG 1955 | ||
MAR | 1957 | - | Commissioned: 4 MAR 1957 | ||
SEP | 1973 | - | SEP | 1973 | Home port changed to Newport RI |
AUG | 1977 | - | AUG | 1977 | Home port changed to Portsmouth NH |
MAY | 1990 | - | OCT | 1991 | Desert Storm |
JAN | 1991 | - | JUN | 1991 | Desert Storm |
DEC | 1991 | - | Decommissioned: 12 DEC 1991 |
MSO-509 General Specifications
Complement: 78 Officers and Enlisted
Displacement: 775 tons
Length: 172 feet 11.5 inches
Beam: 35 feet 1.25 inches
Draft: 10 feet 4 in
Flank Speed: 15 knots
USS ADROIT (MSO-509)
The second Adroit (MSO-509) was laid down on 18 November 1954 at Boothbay Harbor
Maine
by Frank L. Sample
Jr.
Inc. as AM-509; redesignated MSO 509 on 7 February 1955
named Adroit on 17 May 1955; launched on 20 August 1955; sponsored by Mrs. Alice G. Olsen
the wife of Capt. Eliot Olsen
and commissioned on 4 March 1957
Lt. Comdr. J. G. Nemetz in command.
Following commissioning
Adroit completed fitting out and then moved south to Charleston
S.C. From that port
she conducted shakedown training in the West Indies and in the local operating area. The minesweeper then began a period of almost 17 years of service with the Atlantic Fleet Mine Force. During that time
she provided services for several Navy organizations most notably the Naval Mine Defense Laboratory (after 1971 the Naval Coastal Systems Laboratory) at Panama City Fla. the Naval Ordnance Laboratory Test Facility at Ft. Lauderdale Fla.
and the Mine Warfare School at Charleston
S.C. In addition
Adroit participated in Gordon Cooper's Project "Mercury
" space shot in May 1963 and helped the Naval Oceanographic Office to conduct a test in March of 1970. The minesweeper also made occasional deployments to both the Mediterranean tea and the West Indies. During her tour of duty with the 6th Fleet in the summer of 1958
she earned the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal as a result of service off the coast of strife-torn Lebanon. For the most part
however
normal operations such as exercises and goodwill port visits occupied her time overseas. While serving in home waters
she concentrated on type training independent ship's exercises
regular overhauls
and repair periods.
The character of Adroit's Navy career changed significantly midway through 1973. That summer
she received word of her reassignment to naval reserve training duty and of a change of home ports from Charleston to Newport
R.I. She departed Charleston on 24 September and arrived in Newport on the 28th. The minesweeper spent the remainder of her Navy career training naval reservists. She operated along the east coast participating in a number of exercises most frequently independent ship's exercises and amphibious assault training. In August of 1977
her base was changed to Portsmouth
N.H.
whence she operated for more than Tour years. Early in October of 1981 Adroit changed home ports once again from Portsmouth
N.H. to Little Creek
Va. As of December of 1987
she was still operating from the Naval Amphibious Base
Little Creek
Va.
[Note: The above USS ADROIT (MSO-509) history may or may not contain text provided by crew members of the USS ADROIT (MSO-509) or by other non-crew members and text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]