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YMS-97



Call sign:
November - Alpha - Bravo - Hotel

YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper: Laid down, 6 June 1941 by Colberg Boat Works and Stephen Brothers, Stockton, CA; Launched, 16 February 1942; Completed, 11 April 1942; Commissioned, (date unknown); Hastily completed 27 April 1942, without her sound gear and her decks newly caulked, she passed her degaussing runs with a reading of "four" and headed out the Gate for Long Beach, CA. At Long Beach she joined up with 11 other YMS' and set sail for the South Pacific on 16 July 1942. YMS-97 arrived in Noumea, New Caledonia, 20 August 1942 and began sweeping the harbor between Isle Nou and the Lighthouse with her sistership. During the next eight months of sweeping she managed to pick up one mine--ours--- while towing a target for the Army. Decommissioned, (date unknown). After the war YMS-97 turned up in San Francisco Bay where she was used as a live-aboard by a University of California, Berkeley student in 1946. Struck from the Naval Register, 7 February 1947. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 320 t.; Length 136'; Beam 24' 6"; Draft 6' 1"; Speed 13 kts; Complement 33; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, two 20mm, two dct, two dcp; Propulsion two General Motors diesel engines, two shafts.
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YMS-97 37k c. 1946
Anchored in the lee of Angel Island, San Francisco Bay.
Terry Holmes

There is no DANFS history available for YMS-97 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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