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YMS-6

Call sign:
Nan - Able - King - Easy
YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper:

  • Laid down 8 August 1941 by Henry B. Nevins Inc., City Island, NY
  • Launched 19 May 1942
  • Completed 18 June 1942
  • Struck from the Naval Register 19 June 1946
  • Transferred to the State Department, Foreign Liquidation Commission in October 1947
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 270 t.
  • Length 136'
  • Beam 24' 6"
  • Draft 8'
  • Speed 15 kts.
  • Complement 32
  • Armament: One 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, two 20mm mounts and two depth charge projectors
  • Propulsion: Two 880bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear, two shafts.
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    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    YMS-6 122k Launching
    City Island Nautical Museum photo    		 Tom Nye
    YMS-53 184k 28 December 1945
    Shanghai, China
    YMS-338, YMS-6, YMS-8, YMS-53 and YMS-51 were just a portion of the mine sweeping force tied-up along the Huangpu River, formerly Whampoa and Whangpoo, Shanghai, China
    Photo from the collection of LTJG Jack W. Norris, XO, YMS-56    		 Paul Norris
    There is no DANFS history available for YMS-6
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