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PCS-1393
YMS-446
Sanderling (AMS 35)
AMCU / MHC-49


YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Mine Sweeper: Laid down, 22 May 1943 by Robert Jacobs, Inc., City Island, NY as a Patrol Craft Sweeper PCS-1393; Reclassified as an Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper YMS-446, 27 September 1943; Launched, 26 February 1944; Commissioned USS YMS-446, 9 June 1944; Reclassified as a Motor Minesweeper AMS-35 and named Sanderling, 18 February 1947; Reclassified as a Coastal Minesweeper (Underwater Locator) AMCU-49, 1 February 1955; Reclassified as a Coastal Minehunter MHC-49, 7 February 1955; Decommissioned, 14 November 1957 at Green Cove Springs, FL; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 November 1959. Fate unknown. YMS-446 earned one battle star for her post-World War II service.

Specifications: Displacement 270 t.; Length 136'; Beam 24' 6"; Draft 8'; Speed 15 kts; Complement 32; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, two 20mm, two dcp; Propulsion two General Motors diesel engines, two shafts.
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Courtesy of the City Island Nautical Museum
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Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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