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Courser (MSC[O] 6)
ex-AMS-6
ex-YMS-201
Call sign:
November - Quebec - Mike - Bravo
YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper: Laid down 28 August 1942 as YMS-201 by the Hiltebrant Dock Co., Kingston, NY; Launched, 19 November 1942; Completed, 24 July 1943; Reclassified as a Motor Minesweeper, AMS-6, 17 February 1947 and named Courser the following day; Reclassified a Coastal Minsweeper (Old), MSC(O)-6, 7 February 1955; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 November 1959. 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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