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NavSource Online: Mine Warfare Vessel Photo Archive

MSC-109
ex-AMS-109

Courtesy of Arie van Mazijk

Call sign:
Papa - Alpha - Quebec - Oscar

MSC-109 was built for The Netherlands.

Adjutant Class Motor Minesweeper:

Laid down as AMS-109 by Broward Marine Inc., Fort Lauderdale, FL

Completed 26 October 1953, transferred to The Netherlands

Commissioned Bolsward (M 846), 5 November 1953

Reclassified by the U.S. Navy as a Coastal Minesweeper, MSC-109, 7 February 1955

Struck from the Naval Register 1 November 1971

Returned to U.S. Navy custody 18 September 1972 (on paper) and sold for scrap to Pounds Marine Shipping, Havant, Hampshire, England.

Specifications:

Displacement 405 t.

Length 144'

Beam 27'

Draft 9'

Speed 14 kts.

Complement 40

Armament: Two twin 20mm mounts

Propulsion: Two 880bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear, two shafts.

Click on thumbnail for full size image	Size	Image Description	Source
AMS-109
110510909	155k	AMS-109 underway off Florida coast, probably on builder's trials, 1953.	Dave Wright
	98k	The crews of Onversaagd (M 884), ex-MSO 480 and Bolsward by the plane to go to the United States	Arie van Mazijk
	113k	c. 1953 Part of crew with U.S. Navy serviceman prior to transfer	Arie van Mazijk
	82k	c. 1953 Coming down the New River in Ft Lauderdale after completion	James Barton
Bolsward (M 846)
	110k	Bolsward with the Belgium minesweeper Charleroi (M 917) to port of the tanker Texaco Ghent	Pieter Bakels
	95k	Ostende, Belgium	Arie van Mazijk
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