The USS Lucid, MSO 458, built in New Orleans in 1953, is a match to three minesweepers built in the heyday of Stockton shipbuilding by Colberg Boat Works. Each ship was 172 feet in length ...

He said he had been a Petty Officer in Minesweepers and all his friends had been killed. He said "I put on an Royal Navy tie on Armistice Sunday and go to church and feel proud" as well he might.