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NavSource Online: Mine Warfare Vessel Photo Archive

MSC-71
ex-AMS-71

AMS-71 was built for France.

Adjutant Class Motor Minesweeper:

Laid down in 1952 as Motor Minesweeper, AMS-71 by Frank L. Samples, Jr., Inc., Boothbay Harbor, ME

Launched in 1953

Completed 31 August 1953, transferred to France and named Ajonc (M 667)

Commissioned 26 February 1954

Reclassified by U. S. Navy as a Coastal Minesweeper, MSC-71, 7 February 1955

Reclassified A-701

Sold 15 September 1989

Fate unknown.

Specifications:

Displacement 405 t.

Length 144'

Beam 27'

Draft 9'

Speed 14 kts.

Complement 40

Armament: Two 20mm mounts

Propulsion: Two 450shp General Motors diesel engines, two shafts.

Click on thumbnail for full size image	Size	Image Description	Source
AMS-71
110507112	617k	*AMS-71* Progress photo, Boothbay Harbor,Maine, 10 March 1952.	Record Group 19: Records of the Bureau of Ships Series: Photographs of U.S. and Foreign Naval Vessels National Archives Identifier:6933860 Photo courtesy of catalog.archives.gov
110507111	2.53k	*AMS-71* Progress photo, Boothbay Harbor, Maine, 8 May 1952.	Record Group 19: Records of the Bureau of Ships Series: Photographs of U.S. and Foreign Naval Vessels National Archives Identifier:6933861 Photo courtesy of catalog.archives.gov
110507107	2.09k	Mrs. John F. Heaney Jr, sponsor of the *AMS-71*, Boothbay Harbor, Maine, 4 September 1952.	Record Group 19: Records of the Bureau of Ships Series: Photographs of U.S. and Foreign Naval Vessels National Archives Identifier:6933856 Photo courtesy of catalog.archives.gov
110507110	2.50k	*AMS-71* Sponsor's Party, Boothbay Harbor, Maine, 4 September 1952.	Record Group 19: Records of the Bureau of Ships Series: Photographs of U.S. and Foreign Naval Vessels National Archives Identifier:6933857 Photo courtesy of catalog.archives.gov
110507109	445k	*AMS-71* Christening, Boothbay Harbor, Maine, 4 September 1952.	Record Group 19: Records of the Bureau of Ships Series: Photographs of U.S. and Foreign Naval Vessels National Archives Identifier:6933858 Photo courtesy of catalog.archives.gov
	276k	Fitting out at Frank L. Samples, Jr., Inc., Boothbay Harbor, ME. AMS-70 is in the right background, 11 September 1952. National Archives photo Identifier: 6933863	Robert Hurst
110507113	652k	*AMS-71* Progress photo, Boothbay Harbor, Maine, 5 November 1952.	Record Group 19: Records of the Bureau of Ships Series: Photographs of U.S. and Foreign Naval Vessels National Archives Identifier:6933864 Photo courtesy of catalog.archives.gov
110507108	2.09k	*AMS-71* Data plate.	Record Group 19: Records of the Bureau of Ships Series: Photographs of U.S. and Foreign Naval Vessels National Archives Identifier:6933859 Photo courtesy of catalog.archives.gov
110507008	555k	*AMS-71* left, *Chukor (AMS-70)* right. Progress photo, Boothbay Harbor, Maine, 6 March 1953.	Record Group 19: Records of the Bureau of Ships Series: Photographs of U.S. and Foreign Naval Vessels National Archives Identifier:6933854 Photo courtesy of catalog.archives.gov
110507000	3.20k	*Chukor (AMS-70), left, AMS-71* right. The *AMS-69* is behind them. Progress photo, Boothbay Harbor, Maine, 6 March 1953.	Record Group 19: Records of the Bureau of Ships Series: Photographs of U.S. and Foreign Naval Vessels National Archives Identifier:6933853 Photo courtesy of catalog.archives.gov
110507100	3.90k	*AMS-71* Progress photo, Boothbay Harbor, Maine, 2 July 1953.	Record Group 19: Records of the Bureau of Ships Series: Photographs of U.S. and Foreign Naval Vessels National Archives Identifier:6933867 Photo courtesy of catalog.archives.gov
Ajonc (M 667)
	243k	16 October 1972 Toulon, France	Carlo Martinelli
	504k
	209k
Ajonc (A 701)
	64k	Atlas Editions War Ships photo	Tommy Trampp
	229k	25 April 1974 Toulon, France	Carlo Martinelli