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MSC-260
ex-AMS-260


AMS-260 was built for Belgium.
MSC-218 Class Coastal Minesweeper: Laid down as Motor Minesweeper, AMS-260 by the Hodgdon Brothers, Goudy and Stevens, East Boothbay, ME; Reclassified by U. S. Navy as a Coastal Minesweeper, MSC-260, 7 February 1955; Completed 23 August 1956 and transferred to Belgium as Veurne (M 935); Converted to a Survey Vessel in 1969; Converted to a Minehunter in 1972; Decommissioned and struck from the Navy Register in 1987. Fate unknown.

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

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