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MSC-99
ex-AMS-99


AMS-99 was built for France.
Adjutant Class Motor Minesweeper: Laid down as AMS-99 by the Tacoma Boat Building Co., Tacoma, WA; Launched in 1954; Completed 12 August 1954 and transferred to France as Mimosa (M 687); Reclassified by U.S. Navy as a Coastal Minesweeper, MSC-96, 7 February 1955; Commissioned 21 May 1955; Struck from the Naval Register in 1982; Sold for scrap in August 1985.

Specifications: Displacement 405 t.; Length 144'; Beam 27'; Draft 9'; Speed 14 kts; Complement 40; Armament, two twin 20-mm; Propulsion General Motors diesel engines, two shafts.

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