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YMS-425 / AMS-58 / MSC(O)-58 Siskin


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 a Motor Minesweeper and named Siskin (AMS-58), 1 September 1947; Recommissioned, 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 scrapping.

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 1,000 shp diesel engines, two shafts.
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YMS-425 197k - Bob Colantuono
YMS-425 Web Site
YMS-425 84k Boston,
4 July 1962
© Richard Leonhardt
Siskin/Billfish 58k Moored outboard of Billfish (SS-286), 4 July 1962, at Boston Naval Shipyard. © Richard Leonhardt

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Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
U.S.S. YMS 425
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen

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