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YMS-349


YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper: Laid down, 17 September 1942 by the Gibbs Gas Engine Co., Jacksonville, FL; Launched, 5 March 1943; Completed, 16 September 1943; Commissioned, (date unknown); Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, 7 February 1947; Sold, 9 March 1948. 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, 2 dcp; Propulsion two 500shp General Motors diesel engines, two shafts.


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YMS-349 60k . William J. Thrasher
YMS-349 91k Flag from YMS-349 with photo inset of James Melvin Thrasher MM2 William J. Thrasher

There is no DANFS History currently available for YMS-349 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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