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YMS-263
Simon Newcomb (AGS / AGSc 14)


YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper: Laid down, 21 August 1942 by the South Coast Co., Newport Beach, CA; Launched, 2 November 1942; Completed, 10 August 1943; Commissioned as USS YMS-263, 11 August 1943; Converted to a Survey Ship, January - April 1945 by the Wilmington Boat Works, San Pedro, CA; Reclassified as a Survey Ship and named Simon Newcomb (AGS 14), 20 March 1945; Reclassified as a Coastal Survey Ship AGSc-14, 29 July 1946; Decommissioned, 10 November 1949 at Norfolk, VA; Struck from the Naval Register, 31 January 1950. Sold for scrap, 25 April 1950 to B. F. M. Industries, Brooklyn, NY.

Specifications: Displacement 245 t.; Length 136'; Beam 23' 4"; Draft 8' 7"; Speed 14 kts; Complement 60; Armament, one single 3"/50 gun mount, two 20mm, two dct, two dcp; Propulsion, two 1,000 bhp General Motors diesels, two shafts.


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AGS-13/14 59k Seen here as USS Simon Newcomb (AGS 14)
inboard of USS James M. Gilliss (AGS 13).
Steve Remer
YMS-242/262/263 107k In forground at the Brooklyn Navy Yard is Simon Newcomb (AGS 14), Harkness (AGS 12), and James M. Gillis
(AGS 13)
. Astern is the "mother ship" Tanner (AGS 15). LST-664 is moored at another pier with an unidentified
LST outboard.
George W. Desharnais
Simon Newcomb 95k Seen as AGSc-13 George W. Desharnais
Simon Newcomb 136k Unloading all removable gear and ballast prior to salvage attempt by Hoist (ARS 40) after running aground at Mother Burns Cove, Labrador, 9 August 1949.
US Navy Photo
Office of the Oceanographer of the Navy
Simon Newcomb 68k Aground George W. Desharnais
Simon Newcomb 29k Aground George W. Desharnais

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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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