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Bobolink (MHC 44)
ex-AMS-2
ex-YMS-164



Call sign:
November - Xray - Zulu - Victor
YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Mine Sweeper: Laid down, 24 April 1942 by the Dachel-Carter Shipbuilding Corp., Benton Harbor, MI; Launched, 28 November 1942; Completed, 27 March 1943; Commissioned USS YMS-164; Named Bobolink and reclassified as a Motor Minesweeper, AMS-2, 18 February 1947; Reclassified as a Coastal Minehunter, MHC-44, 7 February 1955; Conversion to MHC-44 began, 1 March 1955 at Charleston Naval Shipyard, Charleston, SC; Conversion completed, 30 September 1955; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 January 1960. 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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USS Bobolink (AMS 2)
Bobolink 98k . Joe Radigans
Bobolink 88k c. 1954/1955
Bobolink (AMS 2)		 Eric R. Johns
Bobolink 91k Bobolink life ring Eric R. Johns
USS Bobolink (MHC 44)
Bobolink 81k Bobolink (MHC 44)
U.S. Navy photo from the February 1957 issue of All Hands magazine		 Joe Radigan
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