EXPLOIT MSO 440

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Ship Name and Designation History

This section lists the names and designations that the ship had during its lifetime. The list is in chronological order.

    Aggressive Class Minesweeper
    Keel Laid 28 December 1951 - Launched 10 April 1953

  1. USS EXPLOIT AM-440
    Commissioned 31 March 1954

  2. USS EXPLOIT MSO-440
    Reclassified Ocean Minesweeper (MSO) 7 February 1955
    Decommissioned 16 December 1993

    Struck from the Navy Register 28 March 1994
    Sold for scrap 4 December 2000

Naval Covers

This section lists active links to the pages displaying covers associated with the ship. There should be a separate set of pages for each name of the ship (for example, Bushnell AG-32 / Sumner AGS-5 are different names for the same ship so there should be one set of pages for Bushnell and one set for Sumner). Covers should be presented in chronological order (or as best as can be determined).

Since a ship may have many covers, they may be split among many pages so it doesn't take forever for the pages to load. Each page link should be accompanied by a date range for covers on that page.

  1. USS Exploit MSO-440 Covers Page 1     (DATE RANGE)

 

Postmarks

This section lists examples of the postmarks used by the ship. There should be a separate set of postmarks for each name and/or commissioning period. Within each set, the postmarks should be listed in order of their classification type. If more than one postmark has the same classification, then they should be further sorted by date of earliest known usage.

A postmark should not be included unless accompanied by a close-up image and/or an image of a cover showing that postmark. Date ranges MUST be based ONLY ON COVERS IN THE MUSEUM and are expected to change as more covers are added.
 
>>> If you have a better example for any of the postmarks, please feel free to replace the existing example.


 

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Killer Bar Text

Postmark
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Locy Type
2t(nu)

USS Courtney
DE 1021

1973-11-26

N/A

Canceled on the last day of the Courtney's post office. Cachet by Tazewell G. Nicholson.

 

Other Information

NAMESAKE - Deed, usually one of high accomplishment.

Two ships of the US Navy have borne the name EXPLOIT - USS Exploit AM-95 and USS Exploit MSO-440.

 


 

If you have images or information to add to this page, then either contact the Curator or edit this page yourself and add it. See Editing Ship Pages for detailed information on editing this page.

 


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