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NavSource Online: Mine Warfare Vessel Photo Archive

Turkey (MSC[O] 56)
ex-AMS-56
ex-YMS-444

Call sign:
November - Charlie - Papa - Bravo

YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper: Laid down, 16 November 1943 by the C. Hiltebrant Dry Dock Co., Kingston, NY; Launched, 20 July 1944; Completed, 21 December 1944; Commissioned USS YMS-444, 26 December 1944; Named Turkey and reclassified as a Motor Minesweeper, AMS-56, 1 September 1947; Decommissioned, 30 August 1946 and retained in the 3rd Naval District as a Reserve Training Ship; Placed in commission, in reserve in April 1950; Reclassified as a Coastal Minesweeper (Old), MSC(O)-56, 7 February 1955; Decommissioned, 23 November 1956 at Charleston, SC; Struck from the Naval Register 1 October 1968; Sold in August 1969. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 320 t.; Length 136'; Beam 24' 6"; Draft 8'; Speed 14 kts; Complement 33; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, two 20mm, two .50 cal. machine guns, 2 dct, 2 dcp; two General Motors diesel engines, two shafts.

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Source
USS YMS-444
	64k	c. 1946 Charleston, SC. Note plywood patches covering damage received from refueling.	Charles W. Dunn
	66k	c. 1946 Charleston, SC.	Charles W. Dunn
	65k	c. 1946 Charleston, SC.	Charles W. Dunn
	55k	c. 1946 Charleston, SC.	Charles W. Dunn
	69k	Somewhere between Pearl Harbor, HI and San Pedro, CA	Charles W. Dunn
	67k	.	Charles W. Dunn
	67k	.	Charles W. Dunn
USS Turkey (MSC[O] 56)
	25k	-	USS Surfbird Web Site and Don Gillispie (1960-63)
	31k	.	Historical Collections of the Great Lakes
	93k	Bold (MSO 424), Falcon (MCS 190), Turkey, and Siskin (MSC[O] 58). US Navy Photo from the November 1965 issue of All Hands magazine.	Joe Radigan