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YMS-275

Sunk 9 October 1945

YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper: Laid down 6 November 1942 by the Bellingham Marine Railway and Boat Building Co., Bellingham, WA; Launched 4 February 1943; Completed 20 August 1943; Sunk in a typhoon off Okinawa 9 October 1945; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown). Fate unknown.

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 500 bhp General Motors diesels, two shafts.


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U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
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