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PCS-1394
YMS-447


YMS-447 served the Navies of the United States and the Soviet Union.

YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Mine Sweeper: Laid down, 17 June 1943 by Robert Jacobs, Inc., City Island, NY as a Patrol Craft Sweeper PCS-1394; Reclassified as an Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper YMS-447, 27 September 1943; Launched, 18 March 1944; Completed and commissioned USS YMS-447, 28 June 1944; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Transferred to the Soviet Union, 27 March 1945; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown). Fate unknown.

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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Courtesy of the City Island Nautical Museum
Tom Nye

There is no DANFS History currently available for YMS-447 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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