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MSC-60
ex-AMS-60
ex-Adjutant (AMS 60)


MSC-60 was built for Portugal.
Adjutant Class Motor Minesweeper:

  • Laid down as Adjutant (AMS 60) by the Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp., Morris Heights, NY
  • Completed 30 June 1953
  • The name Adjutant was canceled
  • Transferred to Portugal and renamed Ponta Delgada (M 405)
  • Reclassified by U. S. Navy as a Coastal Minesweeper, MSC-60, 7 February 1955
  • Discarded in 1973
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 405 t.
  • Length 144'
  • Beam 27'
  • Draft 9'
  • Speed 14 kts.
  • Complement 40
  • Armament: Two 20mm mounts
  • Propulsion: Two General Motors diesel engines, two shafts.
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    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    AMS-60
    AMS-60
    110506002    		 832k Bow view (AMS-60) during her preliminary acceptance trial, Long Island Sound, N.Y., 2 March 1953. Record Group 19: Records of the Bureau of Ships
    Series: Photographs of U.S. and Foreign Naval Vessels
    National Archives Identifier:6933734
    Photo courtesy of catalog.archives.gov
    AMS-60
    110506004    		 2.14k Stern view of (AMS-60) during her preliminary acceptance trial, Long Island Sound, N.Y., 2 March 1953. Record Group 19: Records of the Bureau of Ships
    Series: Photographs of U.S. and Foreign Naval Vessels
    National Archives Identifier:6933731
    Photo courtesy of catalog.archives.gov
    AMS-60
    110506005    		 1.73k port broadside view of (AMS-60) during her preliminary acceptance trial, Long Island Sound, N.Y., 2 March 1953. Record Group 19: Records of the Bureau of Ships
    Series: Photographs of U.S. and Foreign Naval Vessels
    National Archives Identifier:6933730
    Photo courtesy of catalog.archives.gov
    Ponta Delgada (M 405)
    MSC-60 126k Namesake: Ponta Delgada - "Thin Cape" is the largest municipality and economic capital of the Autonomous Region of the Azores in Portugal. It is located on São Miguel Island, the largest and most populous in the archipelago Tommy Trampp
    MSC-60 46k Portuguese Navy photo Robert Hurst
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