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MSC-60
ex-AMS-60
ex-Adjutant (AMS 60)


MSC-60 was built for Portugal.
Adjutant Class Motor Minesweeper: Laid down as Adjutant (AMS 60) by the Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp., Morris Heights, NY; Completed 30 June 1953; The name Adjutant was canceled; Transferred to Portugal as Ponta Delgada (M 405); Reclassified by U. S. Navy as a Coastal Minesweeper, MSC-60, 7 February 1955; Discarded in 1973. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 405 t.; Length 144'; Beam 27'; Draft 9'; Speed 14 kts; Complement 40; Armament two 20mm; Propulsion two 880bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear, two shafts.

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MSC-60 47k c. 1954
Portugese Navy photo		 Robert Hurst
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