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MSC-148
ex-AMS-148


AMS-149 was built for The Netherlands.
Adjutant Class Motor Minesweeper: Laid down as AMS-148 by the George W. Kneass Co., San Francisco, CA; Completed 7 April 1954 and transferred to The Netherlands as Breskens (M 855); Reclassified by U. S. Navy as a Coastal Minesweeper, MSC-148, 7 February 1955; Returned to U.S. custody in 1975; Struck from the Navy Register in July 1976, sold to the Nizzam of Hyderabad, India and renamed Kalbarrie. 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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MSC-148 197k Royal Dutch Navy Photo Royal Dutch Navy
MSC-148 277k c. 1980s
Den Helder, The Netherlands
Awaiting disposal
Photo taken from HRNLMS Jaguar (F 822), ex-PCE-1609		 Pieter Bakels
There is no DANFS history available for MSC-148.
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