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Siskin (MSC[O] 58)
ex-AMS-58
ex-YMS-425



Call sign:
November - Quebec - Juliet - Bravo
YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper: Laid down, 6 June 1944 at Astoria Marine Construction Co., Astoria, Oregon; Launched, 9 September 1944; Commissioned USS YMS-425, 21 December 1944; Decommissioned, 19 July 1946; Retained in 1st Naval District as a Naval Reserve Training Ship; Reclassified as a Motor Minesweeper and named Siskin (AMS-58), 1 September 1947; Recommissioned in March 1950; Reclassified a Coastal Minesweeper (Old),
MSC[O]-58, 7 February 1955; Decommissioned, 24 October 1957; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 October 1968. Sold for scrap.

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, two dct, two dcp; Propulsion two 880shp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, two shafts.

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YMS-425
YMS-425 197k . Bob Colantuono
YMS-425 Web Site
Siskin (MSC[O]-58
YMS-425 84k 4 July 1962
Boston Navy Yard
Outboard of Billfish (SS 286)		 © Richard Leonhardt
Siskin/Billfish 58k 4 July 1962
Boston Navy Yard
Moored outboard of Billfish (SS-286).		 © Richard Leonhardt
Bold 93k Bold (MSO 424), Falcon (MCS 190), Turkey (MSC[O] 56), and Siskin.
U.S. Navy Photo from the November 1965 edition of All Hands magazine.		 Joe Radigan
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