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YMS-376
Lark (AMS / MSC(O) 23)


Lark served the Navies of the United States and Japan.

YMS-135 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper: Laid down, 5 January 1943 1942 by the Greenport Basin and Construction Co., Greenport, Long Island, NY; Launched, 13 March 1943; Commissioned as USS YMS-376, 10 August 1943 at New York City; Decommissioned, 6 June 1946 at San Diego, CA; Named Lark and reclassified as a Motor Minesweeper AMS-23, 17 February 1947; Recommissioned, 8 November 1950 at Alameda, CA; Decommissioned, 13 November 1953 at Astoria, OR; Reclassified a Coastal Minesweeper (Old) MSC(O)-23, 7 February 1955; Transferred to Japan, 14 February 1955 and renamed Ninoshima (MSC 262); Struck from the Naval Register, 1967. Fate unknown. YMS-376 received three battle star for World War II service.

Specifications: Displacement 270 t.; Length 136'; Beam 25'; Draft 8'; Speed 15 kts; Complement 32; Armament, one single 3"/50 gun mount, two 20mm, two dct, two dcp; Propulsion, two 1,000shp General Motors diesels, two shafts.
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