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YMS-166



Call sign:
Nan - Yoke - How Fox
YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper:

  • Laid down 25 May 1942 by the Daschel-Carter Shipbuilding Corp., Benton Harbor, MI
  • Launched 30 January 1943
  • Completed 27 May 1943
  • Commissioned USS YMS-166, 21 June 1943 and assigned to the Atlantic Fleet
  • Decommissioned 15 June 1946
  • Struck from the Naval Register 19 July 1946
  • Transferred to the War Shipping Administration in April 1948
  • Sold in 1951 to the Far Eastern Foundation, Inc. of San Francisco, CA for use as a pleasure boat and named Hope
  • Operated out of Guam by a Saipan corporation under the Trust Territory flag
  • 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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    Commanding Officers
    01LT Edward P. O'Callahan, Jr., USNR21 June 1943
    02LT P. A. Loftus, USNR1945
    Courtesy Joe Radigan
    There is no DANFS History currently available for YMS-166
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    Naval Minewarfare Association
    Association of Minemen
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