USS Aggressive

USS Aggressive (MSO-422)
History
United States
Name	USS Aggressive
Builder	Luders Marine Construction Co., Stamford, Connecticut
Laid down	25 May 1951
Launched	4 October 1952
Commissioned	25 November 1953, as AM-422
Decommissioned	2 July 1971
Reclassified	MSO-422 (Ocean Minesweeper), 7 February 1955
Stricken	28 February 1975
Homeport	Charleston, South Carolina
Fate	Sold for scrapping, May 1980
General characteristics
Class and type	Aggressive-class minesweeper
Displacement	853 long tons (867 t) full load
Length	172 ft (52 m)
Beam	35 ft (11 m)
Draft	10 ft (3.0 m)
Propulsion	4 × aluminum block, model 1D1700, Packard diesels, 2,400 shp (1,790 kW) 2 × shafts 2 × controllable pitch propellers
Speed	14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Complement	Active: 7 officers, 70 enlisted Naval Reserve Force: 5 officers, 52 enlisted plus 25 reserve
Sensors and processing systems	AN/SQQ-14 mine countermeasures sonar
Armament	1 × twin 20 mm gun mount 2 × .50 cal (12.7 mm) twin machine guns

USS Aggressive (MSO-422) (originally designated AM-422) was an Agile-class minesweeper. She is the only ship of the United States Navy to be named Aggressive. This was later regarded as a mistake by President John F. Kennedy who stated that the ships should only be employed for "Peace keeping".

She was built by Luders Marine Construction Co. of Stamford, Connecticut, sponsored by Mrs. Stephen M. Archer, and commissioned at Brooklyn, New York, in the New York Naval Shipyard.