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U.S.S. FEARLESS
(MSO-442)Click to view crew list
USS FEARLESS (MSO-442) - an Aggressive-class minesweeper
In Commission 1954 to 1990MSO-442 Deployments - Major Events
| Add a MSO-442 Shellback Initiation | Add a MSO-442 Deployment - Major Event | ||||
| Month | Year | to | Month | Year | Deployment / Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JUL | 1952 | - | Keel Date: 23 JUL 1952 at Higgins Industries New Orleans Louisiana | ||
| JUL | 1953 | - | Launch Date: 17 JUL 1953 | ||
| SEP | 1954 | - | Commissioned: 22 SEP 1954 | ||
| MAY | 1958 | - | AUG | 1958 | Mediterranean |
| JUL | 1971 | - | OCT | 1971 | Mediterranean |
| JAN | 1974 | - | DEC | 1974 | Caribbean |
| JAN | 1983 | - | JAN | 1985 | Mediterranean-Indian Ocean-Persian Gulf |
| MAY | 1983 | - | OCT | 1983 | North Atlantic-Med-Indian Ocean |
| JAN | 1988 | - | MAY | 1988 | Mediterranean-Indian Ocean-Persian Gulf |
| OCT | 1990 | - | Decommissioned: 23 OCT 1990 | ||
MSO-442 General Specifications
Class: Aggressive-class minesweeper
Complement: 7 Officers and 70 Enlisted
Displacement: 853 tons
Length: 172 feet
Beam: 35 feet
Draft: 10 feet
Final Disposition: Sold for scrap 1 December 1992
USS FEARLESS (MSO-442)
The third Fearless (AM-442) was launched 17 July 1953 by
Higgins, Inc., New Orleans, La.; sponsored by Mrs. A. J. Higgins, Jr.;
and commissioned 22 September 1954, Lieutenant J. Roberts in command,
reclassified MSO-442
on 7 February 1942.
With
Charleston, S.C., as her home port, Fearless operated through 1960 on
training operations, experiments and tests,
and in exercises along the coast and in
the Caribbean. Every other year from 1955 she sailed to the Mediterranean for duty with the 6th Fleet, joining in NATO exercises and visiting European ports. In the spring of 1956, she conducted
joint exercises with ships of the Royal Canadian Navy, and through that summer experimented with controllable pitch propellers and mine-counter measures
equipment at Charleston and Port
Everglades, Fla.
[Note: The above USS FEARLESS (MSO-442) history may, or may not, contain text provided by crew members of the USS FEARLESS (MSO-442), or by other non-crew members, and text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]