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YMS-305


YMS-305 served the Navies of the United States and Norway.

YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper: Laid down, 18 July 1942 by the Rice Brothers Corp., East Boothbay, ME; Launched, 30 September 1943; Completed, 17 November 1943; Completed, 17 November 1943; Commissioned USS YMS-305, (date unknown). YMS-305 participated in the D-Day invasion of Normandy in 1944, continued in France until May 1945. Decommissioned, May 1945; Transferred to Norway, 18 May 1945 and renamed Gaula (M 318); Sold to Norway, 7 June 1948; Struck from the Naval Register, 12 August 1948. 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, two 20-mm, two .50 cal. machine guns, two "K" guns, two dct, and one "mousetrap" hedgehog; Propulsion two 400 bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, two shafts.
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