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YMS-72



YMS-72 call sign:
November - India - Lima - Uniform

YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper: Laid down 22 July 1941 by the Weaver Brothers Shipyards, Orange, TX; Launched, 9 April 1942; Completed 15 January 1943; Struck from the Naval Register, 28 March 1946. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 270 t.; Length 136'; Beam 24' 6"; Draft 8'; Speed 15 kts; Complement 32; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, two 20mm, two dcp; Propulsion two General Motors diesel engines, two shafts.


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YMS-72 72k 3 March 1942
Weaver Shipyards, Orange, TX
Courtesy of Dr. Howard C. Williams
Texana and Orange County Historian
Curry Garvin

There is no DANFS history available for YMS-72.
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