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HMS BYMS-2137
ex-HMS J-937
ex-YMS-137


YMS-137 served only in the British Navy.
YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper:

  • Laid down 8 August 1942 as YMS-137 by the Astoria Marine Construction Co., Astoria, OR
  • Launched 19 March 1943
  • Completed 17 April 1943 and transferred to Great Britain as HMS J-937
  • Reclassified HMS BYMS-2137
  • Returned to U.S. custody 10 December 1945
  • Struck from the Navy Register 15 October 1946
  • Transferred to the State Department, Foreign Liquidation Commission in November 1946, sold to Italian interests and named Orchida
  • Renamed Calisto
  • Sold in 1954 to Thomas Loel Guinness and renamed Calisto of NP
  • Refitted in 2008 by Astoria Marine and renamed Calisto
  • Cruising the Maldives, Seychelles, Southeast Asia and the Philippines and currently for charter by Luxury Charter Yachts of San Francisco, CA and London, England.

    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 tracks
  • Propulsion: Two 1,000bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines (Replaced by two 500bhp Duetz diesel engines), Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear, two shafts.
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    MV Calisto
    YMS-137 103k Maunsel White
    YMS-137 107k
    YMS-137 102k
    MV Calisto of NP
    YMS-137 145k Calisto of NP Robert Hurst
    MV Calisto
    YMS-137 62k Calisto Yacht Charter Fleet website
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