USS MSC-257
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{{Infobox ship image | Ship image= | Ship caption= }} {{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country= United States | Ship flag= | Ship name= USS MSC-257 / Guldborgsund (M 575) | Ship namesake= strait of Guldborgsund | Ship owner= | Ship operator= | Ship registry= | Ship route= | Ship ordered= | Ship awarded= | Ship builder= Stephens Brothers, Inc., Stockton, California | Ship original cost= | Ship yard number= | Ship way number= | Ship laid down= 17 August 1955 | Ship launched= 17 March 1956 | Ship sponsor= Mrs. Betty Bullen | Ship christened= | Ship completed= 11 November 1956, transferred to Denmark | Ship acquired= | Ship commissioned= 19 November 1956, sa Guldborgsund (M 575){{Cite web|url=http://www.navsource.org/archives/11/05257.htm|title = MSC-257}} | Ship decommissioned= 1 May 1993 | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship renamed= | Ship reclassified= | Ship refit= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship homeport= | Ship identification= | Ship motto= | Ship nickname= | Ship honors= | Ship captured= | Ship fate= unknown | Ship notes= | Ship badge= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | Ship class= AM-218 / MSC-218 class motor minesweeper | Ship tonnage= | Ship displacement= 375 tons | Ship length= 144 feet | Ship beam= 27 feet | Ship height= | Ship draft= 8 feet, 3 inches | Ship depth= | Ship hold depth= | Ship decks= | Ship deck clearance= | Ship power= Two General Motors diesel engines | Ship propulsion= Two shafts | Ship speed= 14 kts. | Ship range= | Ship endurance= | Ship boats= | Ship capacity= | Ship troops= | Ship complement= 39 | Ship crew= | Ship time to activate= | Ship sensors= | Ship EW= | Ship armament= Two 20 mm mounts, replaced by one 40 mm mount in 1965 | Ship armor= | Ship notes= }} |
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).http://www.navsource.org/archives/11/05257.htmM {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}
Description
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This was a minesweeping vessel that served in the Royal Danish Navy from 1956 to 1993.{{Cite web |title=MSC-257 |url=http://www.navsource.org/archives/11/05257.htm |access-date=2023-12-24 |website=www.navsource.org}}
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.Staff, "Navy Ship Christened By Former Resident", San Bernardino Daily Sun, San Bernardino, California, Wednesday 4 April 1956, Volume LXII, Number 186, page 14.
MSC-257 was transferred to Denmark upon completion and was commissioned on 19 November 1956 as Guldborgsund (M 575).
Operational history
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