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YMS-112



Call sign:
Nan - Able - Tare - Yoke
YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper:

  • Laid down 29 August 1941 by the Burger Boat Co., Boothbay Harbor, ME
  • Launched 5 August 1942
  • Completed 24 November 1942
  • Struck from the Naval Register 3 July 1946
  • Transferred to the War Shipping Administration in January 1947
  • Fate unknown.

    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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