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MSI-82


MSI-82 was built in Belgium



Merksem call sign:
Oscar - Romeo - Hotel - Mike
MSI-1 Class Inshore Minesweeper:

  • Laid down as MSI-82 by the Mercantile Marine Yard, Kruibeke, Belgium
  • Commissioned RBNS Merksem (M 476)
  • Decommissioned in 1992 and sold to a Mr. Wood of Portsmouth, England for conversion to a dive yacht
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 120 t.
  • Length 112'
  • Beam 23'
  • Draft 8'
  • Speed 15 kts.
  • Complement 21
  • Armament: One twin 20mm Orlikon
  • One Mercedes Benz V12 700kw magnetic pulse generator and two 6-cylinder Gardiner 60kw diesel generators
  • Propulsion: Two 700kw Mercedes Benz V12 diesel engines, reduction to one shaft.
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    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    MSO-516 63k F. Bovesse (M 909), ex-MSO-516) and Merksem refueling from Zinnia (A 961) Fritz De Loddere
    MSI-82 56k
    MSO-499 113k 7 December 2003
    Zeebrugge, Belgium
    De Brouwer (M 904), ex-MSO-499; F. Bovesse and Merksem    		 Paolo Marsan
    MSI-82 95k Photo taken by Raphodon Robert Hurst
    Photo added 14 August 2019
    There is no DANFS history currently available for MSI-82
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