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AMS / MSC-168

AMS-168 was built for The Netherlands.
Adjutant Class Motor Minesweeper: Laid down, (date unknown) as AMS-168 by the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA; Launched, (date unknown); Completed, 8 January 1954 and transferred to The Netherlands as Bruinisse (M 856); Reclassified by U. S. Navy as a Coastal Minesweeper MSC-168, 7 February 1955; Decommissioned (date unknown); Returned to U. S. Navy, 1972; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown). Fate unknown.
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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Bruinisse (M 856) ex-AMS-168.
Still wearing her original hull number and flying the Netherlands
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There is no DANFS history available for MSC-168.
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