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YMS-271
Lorikeet (AMS / MSC[O] 49)
Courtesy of Mike Smolinski
YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper: Laid down, 3 July 1942 by the Bellingham Marine Railway and Boatbuilding Co., Bellingham, WA; Launched, 17 October 1942; Completed and commissioned as USS YMS-271, 21 April 1943; Decommissioned, 19 July 1946 at Boston, MA; Placed in service, 1 September 1947 and reclassified as a Motor Minesweeper and named Lorikeet (AMS 49); Recommissioned, 17 March 1950; Reclassified as a Coastal Minesweeper (Old) MSC(O)-49, 7 February 1955; Decommissioned, 18 September 1957; Placed in service, 30 October 1959; Placed out of service, September 1968; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 October 1968 and scrapped.
Specifications: Displacement 215 t.; Length 136'; Beam 24' 6"; Draft 8'; Speed 13 kts; Complement 50; Armament, one single 3"/50 gun mount, two 20mm, 2 dct; Propulsion, two General Motors diesels, two shafts.
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YMS-271, YMS-94, and YMS-183 alongside an unidentified tender. |
Jim Matley |
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22 June 1946 At Naval Air Station Colon, Panama Canal. |
Richard W. Friedrich, F/1c, LSM-467 |
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