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MSC-259
ex-AMS-259


AMS-259 was built for Belgium.
MSC-218 Class Coastal Minesweeper: Laid down as Motor Minesweeper, AMS-259 by the Hodgdon Brothers, Goudy and Stevens, East Boothbay, ME; Reclassified by U. S. Navy as a Coastal Minesweeper, MSC-259, 7 February 1955; Completed 4 June 1956 and transferred to Belgium as Verviers (M 934); Converted to a Minehunter in 1972; Decommissioned and struck from the Navy Register in 1988. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 375 t.; Length 144'; Beam 27'; Draft 8' 3"; Speed 14 kts; Complement 39; Armament one 20mm mount; Propulsion two 880shp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear, two shafts.

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MSC-259 35k . .
MSC-259 78k Verviers, center, in formation with the West German minesweeper Wilhelm (M 1076), flanked by the Dutch minesweepers Hoogeveen (M 827), ex-MSC-184 and Gemert (M 841), ex-MSC-187, followed by an unidentified Royal Navy "Ton" class minesweeper. Robert Hurst
MSC-259 56k c. December 1973 Robert Hurst
There is no DANFS History currently available for MSC-259.
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Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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