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Mine Sweeper AMS 60 Bernisse - Mine Sweeper AMS 60 Bernisse (Hellevoetsluis/NL)

Mine Sweeper "AMS 60 Bernisse" (Est. 1953), still in perfect state and maintained by a group of dedicated volunteers.

 

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AMS 60 Bernisse (Est. 1953) - a wooden mine sweeper, (AMS stands for "Adjutant Mine Sweeper"). built just after the Second World War as part of the Marshall Plan to clean up the many dangerous sea mines in our coastal waters in service of the Dutch Royal Navy.

 

Today a museum and also, as the last ship of this type still in service, regularly found elsewhere to participate in events

 

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Uploaded on October 4, 2015
Taken on October 4, 2015