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MSC-93
ex-AMS-93


AMS-93 was built for France.
Adjutant Class Motor Minesweeper: Laid down as AMS-93 by the National Steel and Shipbuilding Co., San Diego, CA; Completed 3 February 1954 and transferred to France as Lilas (M 682); Commissioned 8 July 1954; Reclassified by U.S. Navy as a Coastal Minesweeper, MSC-93, 7 February 1955; Decommissioned 11 March 1981 and struck from the Naval Register; Sold for scrap 14 January 1985; Scrapped in 1986.

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

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