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Swallow (MSC[O] 36)
ex-AMS-36
ex-YMS-461



Call sign:
November - Quebec - Yankee - Papa

ex-PCS-1416


Swallow served the Navies of the United States and Japan.
YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper: Laid down, 8 June 1943 as Patrol Craft Chaser, PCS-1416 by Stadium Yacht Basin Inc., Cleveland, Ohio; Reclassified as an Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper, YMS-461, 27 September 1943; Launched, 8 January 1944; Completed, 21 June 1944; Commissioned USS YMS-461, 22 June 1944; Named Swallow and reclassified as a Motor Minesweeper, AMS-36, 18 February 1947; Reclassified as a Coastal Minesweeper (Old), MSC(O)-36, 7 February 1955; Decommissioned 16 April 1955 and loaned to the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force as Yugeshima (MSC-660), later YAS-41; Returned to U.S. custody 1 May 1968 and struck from the Naval Register that same day; Sold for scrap 5 September 1969 to Kitajima Choke Co., Sasebo, Japan.

Specifications: Displacement 270 t.; Length 136'; Beam 24' 6"; Draft 8'; Speed 15 kts; Complement 32; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, two 20mm, two dcp; Propulsion two 80shp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, two shafts.

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USS YMS-461
YMS-475/461 65k YMS-475 and YMS-461 in San Francisco Bay, California, shortly after the end of World War II, circa late 1945 or
early 1946.
U.S. Navy photo NH 84992		 Naval Historical Center
USS Swallow (AMS 36)
Gull 124k Swallow and Gull (AMS 16) tied up at Chinnampo, North Korea, in November 1950, after taking part in clearing a channel more that sixty miles inland from the Yellow Sea and up the Taedong River to Chinnampo.
U.S. Navy photo 80-G-423775		 Naval Historical Center
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