Adjutant-class minesweeper


The Adjutant-class auxiliary motor minesweepers were built for the United States Navy throughout the 1950s and 1960s, even as late as 1978. Most were loaned to foreign countries under the Military Defense Assistance Pact, with only 24 actually commissioned by the US Navy, with 13 of those eventually being transferred to foreign nations as well. Initially classified as auxiliary motor minesweeper, on 7 February 1955, they were reclassified as coastal minesweeper .

Design

The Adjutant-class minesweepers were of a wooden construction with brass and stainless steel fittings to reduce magnetic attraction. The rated displacement was light and at full load, though the ships of the Redwing class show a displacement of and the Albatross class show a displacement of. They were between the perpendiculars with an overall length of. They had a beam of with a draft.
Half of the US ships used four Packard diesel engines the rest and most of the ships built for use by foreign nations used two General Motors 8-268A diesel engines.

Classes

The first ship of the class was to be USS Adjutant, however, the name Adjutant was canceled and the ship was transferred to the Portuguese Navy as Ponta Delgada. The first ship commissioned by the US Navy was, this is where the US ships got their class name. With slight changes in design, some of the ships are referred to by other class names, such as Falcon class, Redwing class, Albatross class, or even under Adjutant class.
While in the service of foreign navies they could be referred to under other class names:
NavyClass nameNumber
of ships
Belgian NavyDiest-class coastal minesweeper18 from US,
8 built in Belgium with US funding
Royal Danish NavySund-class coastal minesweeper8
French NavyPavot-class coastal minesweeper30
Hellenic NavyAntiopi -class minesweeper17
Indonesian NavyPulau Alor-class coastal minesweeper6
Iranian NavyShahrokh -class coastal minesweeper4
Italian NavyAbete-class coastal minesweeper25
Japan Maritime Self-Defense ForceYashima -class coastal minesweeper4
Republic of Korea NavyGeumsan/Kum San-class coastal minesweeper8
Royal Netherlands NavyBeemster-class coastal minesweeper14
Royal Norwegian NavySauda-class coastal minesweeper5
Pakistan NavyMahmood -class coastal minesweeper8
Philippine NavyZambales-class coastal minesweeper2
Portuguese NavyPonta Delgada-class minesweeper8
Spanish NavyNalón-class minesweeper12
Republic of China NavyYung Ping -class coastal minesweeper14
Royal Thai NavyBangkeo -class coastal minesweeper4
Turkish NavySeymen-class minesweeper12
United States NavyAdjutant class, Bluebird class, Falcon class, Redwing class, Albatross class24
Republic of Vietnam NavyHàm Tử II''-class coastal minesweeper3

Ships in class

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