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Courlan (MSC[O] 44)
ex-AMS-44
ex-YMS-114
Call sign:
November - Alpha - Whiskey - Echo
YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper: Laid down, 26 June 1941 by the San Diego Marine Construction Co., San Diego, CA; Launched, 13 March 1942; Completed, 12 August 1942; Commissioned as USS YMS-114; Reclassified as a Motor Minesweeper, AMS-44 and named Courlan 1 September 1947; Reclassified as a Coastal Minesweeper (Old), MSC(O)-43, 7 February 1955; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 November 1959. 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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