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AMS / MSC-73
AMS-73 was built for Italy
Adjutant Class Motor Minesweeper: Laid down, (date unknown) as AMS-73 by the Burger Boat Co., Manitowoc, WI; Launched, (date unknown); Completed, 13 January 1953 and transferred to Italy as Betulla (M 5503); Reclassified by U. S. Navy as a Coastal Minesweeper MSC-73, 7 February 1955; Scrapped in 1974.
Specifications: Displacement 405 t.; Length 144'; Beam 27'; Draft 9'; Speed 14 kts; Complement 40; Armament, two twin 20-mm; Propulsion General Motors diesels, two shafts.
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AMS-73 soon after launching. US Navy Photo from the February 1954 issue of All Hands magazine |
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