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MSC-177
ex-AMS-177


Courtesy of Arie van Mazijk


MSC-177 was built in The Netherlands.



Call sign:
Papa - Alpha - Oscar - Juliet
MSC-172 Class Coastal Minesweeper:

  • Laid down 29 December 1953 as AMS-177 by Wilton Fijenoord shipyard. Rotterdam, The Netherlands under the off-shore procurement plan of the Military Defense Assistance Pact and based on the design of the British "Ton"
    Class Coastal Minesweeper
  • Reclassified by U. S. Navy as a Coastal Minesweeper, MSC-177, 7 February 1955
  • Launched 24 March 1955
  • Completed 4 January 1956
  • Commissioned Drachten (M 812), 27 January 1956
  • Underwent Fleet Rehabilitation and Modernization (FRAM) program in 1974
  • Struck from the Naval Register 3 September 1993
  • Scrapped in 2006 at Gravendeel, Holland.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 417 t.
  • Length 149' 8"
  • Beam 28'
  • Draft 9'
  • Speed 16 kts.
  • Complement 33 (peacetime) 38 (wartime)
  • Armament: Two 40mm mounts
  • Propulsion: Two 1,250shp General Motors diesel engines, two shafts.
    Click on thumbnail
    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    MSC-177 108k Under construction Arie van Mazijk
    MSC-177 77k Launching
    MSC-177 74k
    MSC-177 93k
    MSC-177 76k
    MSC-177 81k
    MSC-177 74k .
    MSC-177 88k In dry dock
    MSC-177 108k After FRAM
    MSC-177 53k
    MSC-177 67k Copenhagen, Denmark
    M-809 71k Naaldwijk (M 809), ex-MSC-175, Drachten and Giethoorn (M 815), ex-MSC-179
    MSC-177 35k .
    MSC-177 126k Rotterdam
    Roermond (M 806), ex-MSC-174 is off her starboard bow
    MSC-177 50k .
    M-809 72k Rotterdam
    Moored outboard of Naarden (M 823), ex-MSC-183 and Ommen (M 813), ex-MSC-178
    There is no DANFS history available for MSC-177
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