USS
Implicit
(MSO-455)
Aggressive
Class Minesweeper
- Displacement 775 t; Length 172'; Beam
35'; Draft 12'; Speed 14 kts;
- Complement 78;
- Armament, as built - one
single 40mm gun mount, two .50 cal. machine guns
- Final configuration,
bow gun replaced by one twin 20mm gun mount, two .50 cal. machine
guns.
- Propulsion, four Packard ID1700 diesel engines
- replaced by
four Waukasha Motors Co. diesels, controllable pitch propellers, two
shafts.
- Laid down, 29
October 1952 at Wilmington Boat Works,
Wilmington, CA
- Launched, 1 August 1953
- Commissioned USS Implicit (AM-455),
10 March 1954
- Re designated as an Ocean Minesweeper, MSO-455,
7
February 1955
- Decommissioned, 30 September 1994
- Sold to Taiwan under the Security Assistance
Program
- Renamed Yung Yang (M 1306); Struck
from the Naval
Register, 20 November 1994.
- Fate unknown.
My Duties with USS
Implicit
Jul 1972 -
Feb
1974
May 1972 I
transfered
from the USS Brinkley Bass Sel Res to USS Implicit (MSO-455)
In Jun 1972, while repairing a truck tire, I suffered an on the job
injury (broken wrist) that prevented me from
participating in any shipboard
activity. I had also moved to Bellingham WA, which was more
than 50
miles from the nearest Reserve Center and in Sept 1972, I transfered to
the Standby (non-drilling) reserves.
Feb 1974 I was officially
discharged from Naval Service.
(I call this my Hippie period.)
In Jun 1977 I returned to the Navy and was assigned to USS Hamner (DD-718).
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