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YMS-80
Albatross (AMS / MSC(O) 1)

Call sign: November - Uniform - Delta - Hotel
YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper: Laid down, 27 June 1941 by the Stadium Yacht Basin, Inc., Cleveland, OH; Launched, 5 May 1942; Commissioned USS YMS-80, 15 July 1942; Named Albatross and reclassified as a Motor Minesweeper AMS-1, 17 February 1947; Reclassified as a Coastal Minesweeper (Old) MSC(O)-1, 10 February 1955; Decommissioned and struck from the Naval Register, 20 March 1958; Sold, 19 February 1959 to Dorado Inc., Wildwood, NJ. Fate unknown.
Specifications: Displacement 320 t.; Length 136'; Beam 24' 6"; Draft 6' 1"; Speed 13 kts; Complement 33; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, two 20mm, two dct, two dcp; Propulsion two General Motors diesel engines, two shafts, 500 hp.
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