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YMS-195
Chauvenet (AGS 11)


YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper: Laid down, 3 April 1942 by the Hiltebrant Dock Co., Kingston, NY; Launched, 10 August 1942; Completed, 20 March 1943; Commissioned USS YMS-195, (date unknown); Named Chauvenet and reclassified as a Survey Ship AGS-11, 20 March 1945; Decommissioned, 1946; Struck from the Naval Register, 3 July 1946. Sold in 1947 and became the British mercantile Zipper. Foundered in 1963, 100 miles off Georgetown, British Guinea.

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 General Motors diesel engines, two shafts.


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Chauvenet 111k Chauvenet (AGS 11) Office of the Oceanographer of the Navy

There is no DANFS History currently available for YMS-195 / Chauvenet (AGS 11) at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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