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Bunting (MHC 45)
ex-AMS-3
ex-YMS-170



Call sign:
November - Yankee - Lima - Delta

YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper: Laid down, 1 October 1941 by the Dachel-Carter Shipbuilding Corp., Benton Harbor, MI; Launched, 29 May 1942; Completed, 10 July 1943; Commissioned USS YMS-170; Named Buntingand reclassified as a Motor Minesweeper, AMS-3, 18 February 1947; Reclassified as a Coastal Minehunter, MHC-45, 7 February 1955; Conversion to MHC-45 began, 22 March 1955 at Charleston Naval Shipyard, Charleston, SC; Conversion completed, 23 August 1955; Decommissioned, 30 June 1958; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 June 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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Bunting (AMS 3)
Bunting 73k Bunting (AMS 3) William J. Longhi
Captain, USN, Retired
Bunting (MHC 45)
Bunting 43k Bunting (MHC 45) William J. Longhi
Captain, USN, Retired

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