M911 Eeklo

Adjutant Class Motor Minesweeper: Laid down as AMS-101 by the Hodgdon Brothers, Goudy and Stevens, East Boothday, ME; Completed in May 1953 and transferred to Belgium as Eeklo (M 911); Reclassified by U. S. Navy as a Coastal Minesweeper, MSC-101, 7 February 1955; Returned to U.S. custody in 1969 and transferred to Taiwan as Yung Ching (M 167). Fate unknown.
Specifications: Displacement 405 t.; Length 144'; Beam 27'; Draft 9'; Speed 14 kts; Complement 40; Armament, two twin 20-mm mounts; Propulsion two 880bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear, two shafts.

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Roland van den Broeck, QM, from Ostend, Belgium, is shown putting up safety line during collision drills aboard the ex-AMS-101 which was transferred to Belgium under the mutual De[...]ings Assistance Program. (18.07.1953)

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L O Photo "retrouvée"  M 911 datant de 1955

 

M 911 en livrée 2 tons carley float radar en boule oerlikon's

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