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YMS-19

Call sign:
November - Alpha - Zulu - Hotel
Sunk 24 September 1944
YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper: Laid down 27 June 1941 by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Co., Bristol, RI; Launched 27 December 1941; Completed 20 June 1942; Commissioned, (date unknown); Sunk by a mine 24 September 1944 at 06°53'N., 134°10'E. in Palau Islands area, Caroline Islands; Struck from the Naval Register 11 December 1944.
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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Launching, 27 December 1941. |
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17 June 1942. |
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Photo taken at Naval Base in Puerto Rico, c. late 1943 or early 1944. |
Matthew Lombardi, PO 2/c, USN, Ret. |
There is no DANFS history available for YMS-19 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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