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MSC-256
ex-AMS-256


MSC-256 was built for Denmark.



Grønsund call sign:
Oscar - Victor - Echo - Uniform
AMS-218 Class Motor Minesweeper:

  • Laid down 24 January 1955 as AMS-256 by Stephens Brothers, Inc., Stockton, CA
  • Reclassified as a Coastal Minesweeper, MSC-256, 7 February 1955
  • Launched 12 August 1955
  • Completed 16 September 1956, transferred to Denmark and named Grønsund (M 574)
  • Commissioned 21 September 1956
  • Decommissioned in 1999
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 375 t.
  • Length 144'
  • Beam 27'
  • Draft 8' 3"
  • Speed 14 kts.
  • Complement 39
  • Armament: Two 20mm mounts
    Replaced by one 40mm mount in 1965
  • Propulsion: Two General Motors diesel engines, two shafts.
    Click on thumbnail
    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    MSC-256 84k . Richard Miller, BMCS, USNR, Ret.
    MSC-221 70k c. 1956
    Inboard of Omøsund (M 576), ex-MSC-221
    Royal Danish Navy photo    		 Royal Danish Navy
    MSC-256 45k Royal Danish Naval Museum photo
    MSC-256 544k 25 May 1992
    Photo by L & L van Ginderen from "Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1947-1995", Conway Maritime Press    		 Robert Hurst
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