Builder: Martinolich Shipbuilding Co., San Diego, California
Laid down: 1 September 1952
Launched: 20 December 1952
Commissioned: 10 September 1955
Decommissioned: 20 September 1991
Reclassified: MSO-438, 7 February 1955
Struck: 20 September 1991
Homeport: Long Beach, California and Seattle, Washington
Fate: scrapped in 2000
General characteristics
Class & type: Aggressive-class
Displacement: 620 tons
Length: 172 ft (52 m)
Beam: 36 ft (11 m)
Draft: 10 ft (3.0 m)
Speed: 16 knots
Complement: 74
USS Esteem (MSO 438) was an Aggressive-class 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.