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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-1 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; Reclassified as a Motor Minesweeper, AMS-28 and named Osprey, 18 February 1947; Reclassified as a Coastal Minesweeper, (Old), MSC(O)-28, 7 February 1955; Transferred to the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force 22 March 1955 and renamed Yakushima (MSC 658); Reclassified YTE-10; Sold for scrap 1 June 1969; Struck from the Navy Register 15 June 1969.

Specifications: Displacement 270 t.; Length 136'; Beam 24' 6"; Draft 8'; Speed 15 kts; Complement 34; Armament one 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, two 20mm mounts, two dcp; Propulsion two 880bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear, two shafts.

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YMS-422
Osprey 104k 1 February 1944
YMS-422 construction progress photo		 Astoria Marine Construction Co.
USS YMS-422
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
USS Osprey (AMS 28)
Osprey 120k Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Philip Levin, USN, Commanding Officer of USS Osprey (AMS-28). On the bridge of his ship during the early 1950s.
Naval Historical Center photo NH 73693		 Bill Gonyo
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
Osprey 82k Photograph dated 26 April 1952, during the ship's Korean War service.
U.S. Navy photo NH 68536		 Naval Historical Center
Osprey 164k Ship's officers and crew, at Sasebo, Japan, 28 February 1952. Ship behind them is not Osprey, but a larger, two-stacked Auk-class minesweeper.
Naval Historical Center photo NH 73692		 Bill Gonyo
Osprey 127k Eight crewmembers who had been recently promoted, circa 1952. They are posing on the forecastle, with the pilothouse and ship's bell behind them.
Naval Historical Center photo NH 73694		 Bill Gonyo
Osprey 105k Ship's cook in the galley, preparing to fry some eggs, circa 1952.
Naval Historical Center photo NH 73695		 Bill Gonyo
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DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
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