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YMS-400
Magpie (AMS 25)

Sunk 1 October 1950

YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper: Laid down, 3 July 1942 by Henry B. Nevins, Inc., City Island, New York, NY; Launched, 24 March 1943; Completed, 14 May 1943; Commissioned as USS YMS-400, 15 May 1943; Named Magpie and reclassified as a Motor Minesweeper AMS-25, 17 February 1947; Sstruck a floating mine 2 miles off Chusan Po, Korea and sank, 1 October 1950; Struck from the Naval Register, 20 October 1950.

Specifications: Displacement 270 t.; Length 136'; Beam 25'; Draft 8'; Speed 15 kts; Complement 32; Armament, one single 3"/50 gun mount, two 20mm, two dct, two dcp; Propulsion, two 1,000shp General Motors diesels, two shafts.


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YMS-391 & 400 47k YMS-400 moored inboard of YMS-391. R. J. Oliver

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