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MSC-106
ex-AMS-106


MSC-106 was built for The Netherlands.
Adjutant Class Motor Minesweeper: Laid down as AMS-106 by the Tampa Marine Co., Tampa, FL; Completed 10 August 1953 and transferred to The Netherlands as Bedum (M 847); Reclassified by U.S. Navy as a Coastal Minesweeper, MSC-106, 7 February 1955; Struck from the Navy Register in 1975. Fate unknown.

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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Bedum 55k c. 1954
Wearing her U.S. Navy hull number and flying the Dutch flag.
Royal Dutch Navy photo		 Robert Hurst
Bedum 151k . Royal Dutch Navy
Bedum 213k Enlarged forward view of above photo. Pieter Bakels
Bedum 261k Enlarged midship view of above photo. Pieter Bakels
Bedum 275k Enlarged stern view of above photo. Pieter Bakels
Bedum 113k . Royal Dutch Navy
There is no DANFS history available for MSC-106.
Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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