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YMS-124



Call sign:
Nan - Baker - Dog - Tare
YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper:

  • Laid down 4 December 1941 by the Krause and Banks Shipbuilding Co., Inc., North Bend, OR
  • Launched 6 June 1942
  • Completed and commissioned 23 October 1942 under the command of ENS John W. Pullen, USNR
  • Decommissioned 31 March 1946
  • Struck from the Naval Register 17 April 1946
  • Transferred to the War Shipping Administration in March 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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