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MSC-91
ex-AMS-91



MSC-91 was built for Portugal
Adjutant Class Motor Minesweeper:

  • Laid down as AMS-91 by M. M. Davis and Son, Inc., Solomons, MD
  • Completed 20 September 1953 and transferred to Portugal as Vila do Porto (M 408)
  • Reclassified by U. S. Navy as a Coastal Minesweeper, MSC-91, 7 February 1955
  • Scrapped in 1976.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 405 t.
  • Length 144'
  • Beam 27'
  • Draft 9'
  • Speed 14 kts.
  • Complement 40
  • Armament: Two twin 20mm mounts
  • Propulsion: General Motors diesel engines, two shafts.
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    MSC-91 92k Namesake: Vila do Porto ("Port Town") is the single municipality, the name of the main town and one of the civil parishes on the island of Santa Maria, in the Portuguese archipelago of Azores Tommy Trampp
    Photo added 25 June 2020
    MSC-91 65k David Wright
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