USS MSC-257

USS MSC 257 was ordered as an AM-218 class motor minesweeper but the classification changed 7 February 1955 to MSC-218 class coastal minesweeper before construction. She was transferred to Denmark and performed her service there as Guldborgsund (M 575).[2]

History
United States
Name: USS MSC-257 / Guldborgsund (M 575)
Namesake: strait of Guldborgsund
Builder: Stephens Brothers, Inc., Stockton, California
Laid down: 17 August 1955
Launched: 17 March 1956
Sponsored by: Mrs. Betty Bullen
Completed: 11 November 1956, transferred to Denmark
Commissioned: 19 November 1956, sa Guldborgsund (M 575)[1]
Decommissioned: 1 May 1993
Fate: unknown
General characteristics
Class and type: AM-218 / MSC-218 class motor minesweeper
Displacement: 375 tons
Length: 144 feet
Beam: 27 feet
Draft: 8 feet, 3 inches
Installed power: Two General Motors diesel engines
Propulsion: Two shafts
Speed: 14 kts.
Complement: 39
Armament: Two 20 mm mounts, replaced by one 40 mm mount in 1965

Construction

Laid down on 17 August 1955 by Stephens Brothers, Inc., Stockton, California, she was launched 17 March 1956. She was christened at Stockton, on 2 April 1956 by Mrs. Arthur C. Bullen Jr., formerly of San Bernardino, California, on the tenth anniversary of her marriage to Cmdr. Bullen, senior assistant in the office of the supervisor of shipbuilding, 12th Naval District, San Francisco.[3]

MSC-257 was transferred to Denmark upon completion and was commissioned on 19 November 1956 as Guldborgsund (M 575).

Fate

Guldborgsund was decommissioned 1 May 1993.

References
  1. http://www.navsource.org/archives/11/05257.htm
  2. http://www.navsource.org/archives/11/05257.htmM
  3. Staff, "Navy Ship Christened By Former Resident", San Bernardino Daily Sun, San Bernardino, California, Wednesday 4 April 1956, Volume LXII, Number 186, page 14.


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