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YMS-125



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

  • Laid down 2 June 1941 by the J. M. Martinac Shipbuilding Corp., Tacoma, WA
  • Launched 18 December 1941
  • Completed 25 July 1942 and commissioned USS YMS-125, LT Whitson M. Jones, USNR in command
  • Operated in Alaskan waters and decommissioned 1 April 1946
  • Struck from the Naval Register 1 May 1946
  • Transferred to the War Shipping Administration in February 1947
  • Registered in 1948 to the Russell Towboat and Moorage Co. of Vancouver, WA as the tugboat Russell 125
  • Scrapped in 1952.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 270 t.
    1948 - 252 t.
  • Length 136'
    1948 - 126.3'
  • Beam 24' 6"
    1948 - 25'
  • Draft 8'
    1948 - 11.3'
  • Speed 15 kts.
  • Complement 32
    1948 - Two
  • 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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    YMS
    111912500    		 NR Plenty of Rain and Ritual At Minesweeper Launchings
    Festive Spirit Is Undampened as Four Naval Vessels Are Christened.
    Traditional launching rites were conducted in the grand manner as (YMS-133), (YMS-125),(YMS-129) & (YMS-130) were given to the waters of Puget Sound at half hour intervals.    		 Image and text provided by Washington State Library; Olympia, WA.
    Photo from the The Tacoma Times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 20 December 1941, Image 9, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
    There is no DANFS history available for YMS-125
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