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YMS-13



Call sign:
Nan - Able - Oboe - How


YMS-13 served the Navies of the United States and France
YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper:

  • Laid down 21 April 1941 by the Rice Brothers Corp., Boothbay, ME
  • Launched 2 May 1942
  • Completed 13 August 1942
  • Commissioned USS YMS-13
  • Transferred to France 9 October 1944 ans named Basilic (D 317)
  • Sold to France 21 March 1949
  • Struck from the Navy Register 28 April 1949
  • Reclassified D-4 and M-644
  • Decommissioned 28 December 1963
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 270 t.
  • Length 136'
  • Beam 24' 6"
  • Draft 8'
  • Speed 15 kts.
  • Complement 32
  • Armament: One 3"/50 dual puropse gun mount, two 20mm mounts, 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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    YMS-13 62k 3 September 1942 Robert Hurst
    There is no DANFS history available for YMS-13 at the Haze Gray & Underway Website
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