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MSI-90


MSI-90 was built in Belgium
MSI-1 Class Inshore Minesweeper:

  • Laid down as MSI-90 by the Mercantile Marine Yard, Kruibeke, Belgium
  • Delivered 14 October 1957
  • Commissioned RBNS Herstal (M 478)
  • Converted to a survey ship in 1970
  • Decommissioned and struck from the Naval Register in 1991
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications

  • Displacement 120 t.
  • Length 112'
  • Beam 23'
  • Draft 8'
  • Speed 15 kts.
  • Complement 21
  • Armament: One twin 20mm Oerliken mount
  • One Mercedes Benz V12 700kw magnetic pulse generator and two 6-cylinder Gardiner 60kw diesel generators
  • Propulsion: Two 700kw Mercedes Benz V12 diesel engines, two shafts.
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    MSI-83 & MSI-90 200k Royal Belgian Navy motor minesweepers RBNS Oudenaarde (M 477) inboard and RBNS Herstal (M 478) outboard
    Photo courtesy of Raphodon
    Photo added 13 August 2019    		 Robert Hurst
    MSI-90 157k c. 1969
    Belgian Navy photo from the 1969-1970 edition of Jane's Fighting Ships
    MSI-90 206k c. 1971
    Photo by John G. Callis
    There is no DANFS history currently available for MSI-90
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