Medium SEAL Support Craft - MSSC.
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Medium SEAL Support Craft (MSSC)
Displacement: 17 tons
Length: 36 feet
Beam: 13.5 feet
Draft: 2 feet
Propulsion: 2 Chevrolet 427 gasoline engines, 350 hp, 2 MerCruiser stern drives, fuel - 300 gal.
Speed: 35 kts
Range:
Crew: 1 officer + 4 enlisted + 17 SEALs
Weapons: 4 7.62mm M-60 mg, 3 .50 BMG or 2 .50 BMG and 1 7.62mm Mini-gun, 1 60mm Mk 4 Mod 0 mortar.
Note: 10 built by Atlantic Research. In service 1969.
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Photo: Gerry Hunt
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HISTORY: A lot of history and stories
from the guys that rode them can be found at:
MST-2
06/09/03 After
we'd fixed the MSSC at Binh Thuy, we headed back to SEA FLOAT. As
it happened, we had to reduce our speed due to the river traffic
and at that speed, combined with the channel, water depth, and
bank configuration we made a rather spectacular wake. As it
happened we went past a small Vietnamese village where the
villagers had built outhouses over the river. As we went past, the
VNs kept pointing at our wake that was crashing up on the shore,
but we couldn't do anything about it. As the wake rolled past this
one outhouse the wave broke such that there was a gusher that
sprouted out the top of the outhouse. This was followed by an
explosion of Vietnamese obscenities and a very mad woman clad in
drenched black native garb, jabbering away, and shaking her fist
at us. I guess this falls into the how to win friends and
influence people NOT department.
Bob Stoner
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