Agile-class minesweeper

USS Inflict (MSO-456)
Class overview
Operators
Succeeded byAcme class
Subclassesships built for FMS
CostUS$9 million (1955)[1] per unit
Built1951-1957
In service1953 - present
Completed93
Cancelled1
Active4
Preserved2
General characteristics
Displacement853 tons (full load)
Length172 ft (52 m)
Beam35 ft (11 m)
Draft10 ft (3.0 m)
Propulsion
  • 4 × Four Packard ID1700 diesel engines, 2,280 bhp (1,800 kW)
  • 2 × shafts
  • 2 × controllable pitch propellers
Speed14 knots (26 km/h)
Complement7 officers, 70 enlisted
Sensors and
processing systems
AN/UQS-1 mine hunting sonar
Armament

The Agile-class minesweepers are a class of US-built ocean-going minesweepers. 58 ships were built for the United States Navy, 35 ships were built for the allied NATO navies of Belgium, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway and Portugal. 13 ships were later transferred to Belgium, Spain, Taiwan, the Philippines and Uruguay.

There is some confusion on how to name this class.[2] The class is often described as the Aggressive-class, as USS Aggressive (MSO-422) was the first ship to be commissioned. Sometimes four ships are a Dash-class subclass, although all ships are of the same design.[3]

  1. ^ "Stats". 17 July 2012.
  2. ^ navsource.org minesweeper class
  3. ^ Paul H. Silverstone: US Warships since 1945. Allan Ltd., Shepperton, Surrey (UK) 1986, p. 127. ISBN 0711015988