USS Adroit (MSO-509)

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History
United States
Laid down	18 November 1954
Launched	20 August 1955
Commissioned	4 March 1957
Decommissioned	12 December 1991
Stricken	8 May 1992
Homeport	Charleston, South Carolina Newport, Rhode Island Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Little Creek, Virginia
Fate	Scrapped at Wilmington, North Carolina, 30 May 1995
General characteristics
Displacement	775 tons (full load)
Length	172 ft 11.5 in (52.718 m)
Beam	35 ft 1.25 in (10.6998 m)
Draught	10 ft 4 in (3.15 m)
Speed	15 knots
Complement	78
Armament	40 mm mount (prior 1969), Two .50 cal (12.7 mm) machine guns (after 1969)

USS Adroit (AM-509/MSO-509) was an minesweeper acquired by the U.S. Navy for the task of removing mines that had been placed in the water to prevent the safe passage of ships.

The second ship to be named Adroit by the Navy, 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.