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MSO-505
ex-AM-505


MSO-505 was built for France.



Call sign:
Foxtrot - Alpha - Uniform - Whiskey
Aggressive Class Ocean Minesweeper:

  • Laid down 25 June 1954 as AM-505 by the Tacoma Boat Building Co., Inc., Tacoma, WA
  • Reclassified as an Ocean Minesweeper, MSO-505, 7 February 1955
  • Launched 6 August 1955
  • Sponsored by Mrs. C. E. Trescott
  • Completed 14 March 1956
  • Transferred to France and named Baccarat (M 623), 4 April 1956
  • Struck from the Navy Register in 1993
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 934 t.
  • Length 190'
  • Beam 36'
  • Draft 12'
  • Speed 15 kts.
  • Complement 81
  • Armament: One 40-mm mount and two .50 cal. machine guns
  • Propulsion: Four General Motors diesel engines, two shafts.
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    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    MSO-505
    MSO-505 222k 6 August 1955
    Immediately after being launched at the Tacoma Boat Building Yard
    Tacoma Public Library, Richards Studio, photo D92478-23    		 Mike Green
    MSO-505 130k 4 April 1956
    Long Beach, CA
    Still wearing her U.S. Navy hull number    		 Robert M. Cieri
    Baccarat (M 623)
    MSO-505 37k Line drawing of M-623 Gilles Obellianne
    MSO-505 73k Robert Hurst
    MSO-505 62k
    MSO-505 117k
    MSO-505 131k Passing HMS Dolphin, Portsmouth, England
    Photo by Marine Nationale
    MSO-505 104k c. 1981
    Tied up during a port visit to Holland
    MSO-450 179k c. 1983
    Berneval (M 613), ex-MSO-450 and Baccarat underway
    MSO-505 77k c. February 1990
    Limerick, Republic of Ireland
    Tied up inboard of Andromeda (M 643). Alencon (M 612) ex-MSO-453 is astern
    MSO-505 85k 14 July 1990
    Brest, France
    Dressed overall.
    MSO-505 84k c. 1990
    Brest, France
    In drydock
    There is no DANFS history available for MSO-505
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