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Egret (MSC[O] 46)
ex-AMS-46
ex-YMS-136



YMS-136 call sign:
November - Whiskey - Sierra - Quebec


Egret served the Navies of the United States and Brazil.
YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper:

  • Laid down 16 July 1942 by the Astoria Marine Construction Co., Astoria, OR
  • Launched 8 February 1943
  • Completed 19 March 1943 and commissioned YMS-136
  • Named Egret, reclassified as a Motor Minesweeper, AMS-46, 1 September 1947 and placed in service as a Naval Reserve training ship in the 3rd Naval District (New York)
  • Reclassified as a Coastal Minesweeper (Old), MSC(O)-46, 7 February 1955
  • Struck from the Naval Register 1 November 1959
  • Transferred to Brazilian 15 August 1960 and renamed Jutaí (M 12)
  • 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 1,000shp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear, two shafts.
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    Egret 60k Egret (AMS 46) Historical Collections of the Great Lakes
    Commanding Officers
    01Chief Boatswain J. W. Cantrell, USN1950 - October 1951
    02LT Robert Edward Classen, USNOctober 1951 - August 1952
    03LTJG R. E. Bornhop, USNAugust 1952 - December 1952
    04LT Robert Carhart Conolly, II, USN - USNA Class of 1948
    Retired as Rear Admiral    		December 1952 - February 1954
    05LT Eugene Dale Geiger, USNFebruary 1954
    Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler, Ron Reeves and Joe Radigan
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    Association of Minemen
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