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YMS-238
Flamingo (AMS / MSC[O] 11)
YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper: Laid down, 11 May 1942 by Stadium Yacht Basin Inc., Cleveland, OH; Launched, 12 September 1942; Completed and commissioned USS YMS-238, 23 November 1942; Named Flamingo and reclassified as a Motor Minesweeper AMS-11, 18 February 1947; Reclassified as a Coastal Minesweeper, (Old) MSC(O)-11, 7 February 1955; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, 1 November 1959.
Fate unknown.
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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