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YMS-49

Call sign:
Nan - Easy - King - Item

YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper: Laid down, 30 June 1941 by the Wheeler Ship Building Corp., Brooklyn, NY; Launched, 22 May 1942; Completed, 24 July 1942; Damaged by coastal defense gun fire 28 June 1945 in the Balikpapan area, Borneo at 01°. 00' S., 117°. 00' E.; Struck from the Navy Register 3 July 1946. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 320 t.; Length 136'; Beam 24' 6"; Draft 6' 1"; Speed 13 kts; Complement 33; Armament one 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, two 20mm, two dct, two dcp; Propulsion two 880bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear, two shafts.

Click on thumbnail for full size image	Size	Image Description		Source
	179k	1 October 1942 Navy Yard Charleston, SC In dry dock with SC-637, YMS-9 and YMS-10		Robert Hall

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Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen

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