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YMS-362
Hawk (AMS / MSC[O] 17)


YMS-156 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper: Laid down, 24 November 1942 by Robert Jacobs Inc., City Island, NY; Launched, 22 May 1943; Completed, 30 September 1943; Commissioned USS YMS-362, 4 October 1943; Named Hawk and reclassified a Motor Minesweeper AMS-17, 17 February 1947; Reclassified a Coastal Minesweeper (Old) MSC(O)-17, 7 February 1955; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, 17 October 1957.
Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 245 t.; Length 136'; Beam 22' 9"; Draft 6' 3"; Speed 14.5 kts; Complement 50; Armament one single 3"/50; Propulsion two 1,800 bhp General Motors diesels, two shafts.
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YMS-362 55k YMS-362 off Iwo Jima, February 1945. Naval War College

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

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Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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