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Barbet (MSC[O] 41)
ex-AMS-41
ex-YMS-45



Call sign:
November - Echo - Bravo - Hotel
YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper:

  • The second Barbet was laid down as YMS-45, 20 June 1941 by the Wheeler Shipbuilding Corp., Brooklyn, NY
  • Launched 20 April 1942
  • Completed 5 June 1942
  • Commissioned USS YMS-45, 8 June 1942
  • Decommissioned 5 August 1946 at New York and placed in reserve
  • Placed in service 13 January 1947 as a school ship for reservists of the 3d Naval District (New York)
  • Named Barbet, reclassified as a Motor Minesweeper, AMS-41, 19 August 1947
  • Placed in commission in reserve 11 May 1950
  • Recommissioned 21 November 1950
  • Reclassified as a Coastal Minesweeper (Old), MSC(O)-41, 7 February 1955
  • Decommissioned 17 June 1955 at Green Cove Springs, FL
  • Struck from the Naval Register 1 November 1960 and scrapped.

    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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    Barbet 74k Barbet (AMS 41). Eric R. Johns
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