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YMS-324 / AMS-16 / AMCU-46 / MHC-46 Gull



YMS-324 call sign:
November - Papa - Zulu - Charlie

YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper: Laid down, 3 June 1943 at the Al Larson Boat Shop, Terminal Island, CA; Launched, 14 October 1943; Completed and commissioned USS YMS-324, 28 February 1944; Redesignated a Motor Minesweeper AMS-16, 17 February 1947 and renamed Gull; Conversion to a Coastal Minesweeper ((Underwater Locator) began 1 August 1954 at the Ship Repair Facility, Yokosuka, Japan; Reclassified AMCU-46, 1 August 1954; Conversion completed, 31 January 1955; Reclassified a Coastal Minehunter MHC-46, 7 February 1955; Decommisioned, 14 January 1958 at San Diego, CA; Struck from the Naval Register, March 1959 and disposed. Fate unknown. Gull was awarded two battle stars for World War II service and nine battle stars and the Navy Unit Commendation for Korean service.

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 dep; Propulsion two diesel engines, two shafts.
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Gull 81k Seen here as YMS-324 San Francisco Bay
US Navy photo NH 79694
Naval Historical Center
YMS-324 134k Seen here as YMS-324 underway, probably shortly after her completion in early 1944.
US Navy photo NH 91923
Naval Historical Center
Gull 124k Swallow (AMS-36) and Gull tied up at Chinnampo, North Korea, November 1950, after taking part in clearing a channel more that sixty miles inland from the Yellow Sea and up the Taedong River to Chinnampo. Note flags and sweep gear at the ships' sterns, including depressors hanging over the transoms, otters on deck and floats and cable reels further forward.
US Navy photo 80-G-423775
Naval Historical Center
Gull 86k Seen here c. 1951 as Gull sweeping for mines off Korea
US Navy photo 430072
Naval Historical Center
AMS-8 75k Curlew (AMS 8), Mockingbird (AMS 27), Heron (AMS 18), and Gull nested at Sasebo, Japan. c. 1953. Wayne Schafer
AMS-5 Condor/LST-735 Dukes County 88k Dukes County (LST-735) serving as mother ship for seven minesweepers, probably in a Japanese port, c. 1952-54. Ships nested alongside are:
Gull;
Firecrest (AMS-10);
Condor (AMS-5);
Merganser (AMS-26);
Osprey (AMS-28);
Competent (AM-316),
and
Chief (AM-315).
Courtesy US Naval Institute, James C. Fahey Collection.
US Navy Photo NH 68589
Naval Historical Center

View the Gull (AMS-16)
DANFS history entry located on 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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