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Osprey (MSC[O] 28)
ex-AMS-28
ex-YMS-422



Call sign: November - Quebec - Foxtrot - Lima


Osprey served the Navies of the United States and Japan.
YMS-410 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper: Laid down 9 October 1943 by the Astoria Marine Construction Co., Astoria, Oregon; Launched 1 June 1944; Completed and commissioned USS YMS-422, 27 September 1944; Redesignated as a Motor Minesweeper, AMS-28 and named Osprey, 18 February 1947; Redesignated a Coastal Minesweeper, Old, MSC(O)-28, 7 February 1955; Transferred to the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force 22 March 1955 as Yakushima (MSC 658); Reclassified YTE-10; Sold for scrap 1 June 1969; Struck from the Naval Register 15 June 1969.

Specifications: Displacement 270 t.; Length 136'; Beam 24' 6"; Draft 8'; Speed 15 kts; Complement 34; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, two 20mm, two dcp; Propulsion diesel.

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Osprey 104k 1 February 1944
YMS-422 construction progress photo		 Astoria Marine Construction Co.
Osprey 70k c. Late 1944/early 1945.
YMS-422 in San Francisco Bay
Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1976.
U.S. Navy photo NH 84987		 Naval Historical Center
Osprey 82k Photograph dated 26 April 1952, during the ship's Korean War service.
U.S. Navy photo NH 68536		 Naval Historical Center
Chatterer 146k 30 November 1950
Mine Division 31 tied up at Yokosuka, following mine clearance activities off Korea.
From left to right: Merganser (AMS-26); Osprey; Chatterer (AMS-40) and Mockingbird (AMS-27).
U.S. Navy photo 80-G-424597		 Naval Historical Center
AMS-5 Condor/LST-735 Dukes County 88k Dukes County (LST 735) serving as mother ship for seven minesweepers, probably in a Japanese port, circa 1952-54. Ships nested alongside are: Gull (AMS-16); Firecrest (AMS-10); Condor(AMS-5); Merganser (AMS-26); Osprey; Competent (AM-316); Chief (AM-315).
Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Institute, James C. Fahey Collection
U.S. Navy photo NH 68589.		 Naval Historical Center
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