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YMS-340


YMS-156 Class Auxiliary Motor Mine Sweeper: Laid down, 24 March 1943 by the Seattle Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Seattle, WA; Launched, 26 June 1943; Completed, 30 October 1943; Commissioned USS YMS-340, (date unknown); Decommissioned (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, 10 June 1947; Sold, 29 December 1947. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 207 t.; Length 136'; Beam 24' 6"; Draft 6'; Speed 13 kts; Complement 50; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, two 20mm, two dcp; Propulsion, two General Motors diesels, 1,000 bhp.
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YMS-340 109k YMS-340 with three other YMS' alongside USS Mindanao (ARG 3) after explosion of USS Mount Hood (AE 11). These minesweepers were protected from most of blast by Mindanao.
Copied from the War Diary, Manus Naval Base, November 1944.
U S Navy Photo NH 96175
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Naval Historical Center

There is no DANFS history available for YMS-340 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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