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YMS-23

Call sign: November - Bravo - Charlie - Hotel

YMS-23 served the Navies of the United States and France.
YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper: Laid down, 23 July 1941 as YMS-23 by the Greenport Basin & Construction Co., Long Island, NY; Launched, 13 December 1941; Completed, 7 May 1942; Transferred to France, 6 March 1944 as Perce Neige (D 201); Sold to France, 21 March 1949; Struck from the Naval Register, 28 April 1949; Reclassified D-24 and M-664, (dates unknown); Perce Neige decommissioned, 28 December 1963. 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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