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AMS / MSC-265

AMS-265 was built for Spain.

Ulla call sign:
Echo - Bravo - Juliet - Juliet
AMS-218 Class Motor Minesweeper: Laid down, (date unknown) as AMS-265 by the Quincy Adams Yacht Yard, Inc., Quincy, MA; U. S. Navy reclassified as a Coastal Minesweeper MSC-265, 7 February 1955; Launched, 28 January 1956; Completed and commissioned, 9 July 1956; Transferred to Spain as Ulla (M 24), 24 July 1956; Reclassified as a Patrol Craft , 1980; Reclassified P-52, 1986; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, 1993; Sunk as an artificial reef off La Manga del Mar Menor, 14 October 1999, approximately 550 yards away from Turia (P 52), ex-U. S. MSC-130.
Specifications: Displacement 375 t.; Length 144'; Beam 27'; Draft 8' 3"; Speed 14 kts; Complement 39; Armament, one twin 20-mm; Propulsion General Motors 880shp diesels, two shafts.
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Scanned from a Post Card. c. 1961/1966. |
Fabio Peņa |
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Palma de Mallorca, Spain. 26 May 1979. |
Fabio Peņa |
There is no DANFS history available for MSC-265.
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