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HMS BYMS-2046
ex-HMS J-846
ex-BYMS-46



BYMS-46 served the Navies of Great Britain and The Netherlands



Westerscheide call sign:
Papa - Alpha - November - Juliet
BYMS-1 Class Motor Minesweeper:

  • Laid down 10 April 1942 as BYMS-46 by the Gibbs Corp., Jacksonville, FL
  • Launched 19 July 1942
  • Completed 19 January 1943
  • Transferred to Great Britain and reclassified J-846, 3 February 1943
  • Reclassified BYMS-2046
  • Returned to U.S. custody 11 April 1946, loaned to The Netherlands and named Westerscheide (MV 39)
  • Reclassified M-839
  • Returned to U.S. custody 27 July 1947 (on paper only), sold to The Netherlands and reclassified A-873
  • Struck from the Naval Register in 1957
  • Transferred to Amsterdam for technical education
  • 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 tracks
  • Propulsion: Two 880bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear, two shafts.
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    HMS J-846
    BYMS-2046 76k Photo FL 7340 from the Collections of the Imperial War Museum Robert Hurst
    HNLMS Westerscheide (MV 39)
    BYMS-2046 72k . Arie van Mazijk
    YMS-155 76k Steaming in formation, left to right: Texelstroom (MV 37), Vliestroom (MV 38) and Westerschelde
    YMS-210 56k Moored inboard of Borndiep (MV 34) and Texelstroom (MV 37)
    YMS-155 98k Den Helder, Holland
    HNLMS Westerscheide (M 839)
    BYMS-2046 52k . Arie van Mazijk
    HNLMS Westerscheide (A 873)
    BYMS-2046 61k . Arie van Mazijk
    There is no DANFS history available for BYMS-46
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