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YMS-123


YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper: Laid down, 2 July 1941 by the Krause & Banks Shipbuilding Co., Inc., North Bend, OR; Launched, 14 March 1942; Completed, 24 August 1942; Commissioned USS YMS-123, (date unknown); Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, 17 April 1946; Purchased by Nootka Sound Services Ltd., Vancouver Island, Canada in late 1951 and placed in service as the passenger/cargo ship M/V Uchuck III operating out of Gold River, British Columbia, Canada.

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 (engines replaced with two General Motors 8-268A diesels in 1951), two shafts.
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YMS-123 23k c. 1943 Joseph M. Radigan
Uchuck III 19k Uchuck III, ex-YMS-123 Nootka Sound Service Ltd.

There is no DANFS history available for YMS-123 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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