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Chauvenet (AGS 11)
ex-YMS-195
Call sign:
Nan - Zebra - Jig - George
YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper/Derickson Class Survey Ship: Laid down, 3 April 1942 by the Hiltebrant Dock Co., Kingston, NY; Launched, 10 August 1942; Completed, 20 March 1943; Commissioned USS YMS-195, 23 March 1943; Named Chauvenet and reclassified as a Survey Ship, AGS-11, 20 March 1945; Decommissioned in 1946; Struck from the Navy Register 3 July 1946. Sold in 1947 and became the British mercantile Zipper. Foundered in 1963, 100 miles off Georgetown, British Guinea.
Specifications: Displacement 340 t.; Length 136'; Beam 23' 4"; Draft 8' 7"; Speed 14.5 kts.; Complement 32; Armament one 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, two 20mm, two dcp; Propulsion two 1,000bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear, two shafts.
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