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MSC-248
ex-AMS-248


AMS-248 was built in France
MSC-172 Class Coastal Minesweeper:

  • Laid down as Motor Minesweeper AMS-248 by Ch. Augustin Normand, Le Havre, France under the off-shore procurement plan of the Military Defense Assistance Pact
  • Launched 19 November 1953
  • Completed 9 February 1954 as Castor (M 708)
  • Commissioned 18 September 1954
  • Reclassified by U. S. Navy as a Coastal Minesweeper, MSC-248, 7 February 1955
  • Decommissioned in 1973
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 375 t.
  • Length 144'
  • Beam 27'
  • Draft 8' 3"
  • Speed 14 kts.
  • Complement 39
  • Armament: One 20mm mount
  • Propulsion: Two 880shp General Motors diesel engines, two shafts.
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