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AMS / MSC-76

Built for Italy as Ontano (M 5513)
Adjutant Class Motor Minesweeper: Laid down, (date unknown) as AMS-76 by Henry C. Grebe and Co., Inc., Chicago, IL; Launched, (date unknown); Completed 26 October 1954 and transferred to Italy as Ontano (M 5513); Reclassified by U. S. Navy as a Coastal Minesweeper MSC-76, 7 February 1955; Struck in 1993.
Specifications: Displacement 405 t.; Length 144'; Beam 27'; Draft 9'; Speed 14 kts; Complement 40; Armament, two twin 20-mm; Propulsion General Motors diesels, two shafts.
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Ontano (M 5513) from the February 1963 issue of All Hands magazine |
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