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Flicker (MSC[O] 9)
ex-AMS-9
ex-YMS-219
Call sign:
November - Charlie - Hotel - Lima
YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper: Laid down 23 October 1942 by the J. N. Martinac Shipbuilding Co. Tacoma, WA; Launched, 23 January 1943; Completed, 20 July 1943; Commissioned USS YMS-219; Named Flicker and reclassified as a Motor Minesweeper, AMS-9, 17 February 1947; Reclassified as a Coastal Minsweeper (Old), MSC(O)-9, 7 February 1955; Decommissioned in September/October 1953 at Naval Station Astoria, OR; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 January 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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