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YMS-90



Call sign:
Nan - Uncle - Roger - Easy
YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper:

  • Laid down 24 July 1941 by the Hubbard's South Coast Co., Newport Beach, CA
  • Launched 19 December 1941
  • Completed 24 July 1942
  • Grounded at Buckner Bay, Okinawa 9 October 1945 during Typhoon Louise
  • Refloated 24 October 1945 and decommissioned
  • Struck from the Naval Register 5 June 1946
  • Destroyed in September 1947.

    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.
    Click on thumbnail
    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    YMS-56 280k Artist's rendition of YMS-56 and YMS-90
    Cover of the October 1942 edition of Motor Boating magazine    		 Tom Nye
    YMS-56 139k c. October 1945
    Aground at Okinawa    		 David Wright
    Commanding Officers
    01LT A. G. Dohrmann, USNR1945
    Courtesy Joe Radigan
    There is no DANFS history available for YMS-90
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