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Crossbill (MSC[O] 45)
ex-AMS-45
ex-YMS-120



Call sign:
November - Bravo - Foxtrot - Yankee
YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper: Laid down, 23 August 1941 by the Harbor Boat Building Co., Terminal Island, CA; Launched, 4 April 1942; Completed, 1 August 1942; Commissioned USS YMS-120; Reclassified as a Motor Minesweeper, AMS-45 and named Crossbill, 1 September 1947; Reclassified as a Minesweeper Coastal (Old), MSC(O)-45, 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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