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Flamingo (MSC[O] 11)
ex-AMS-11
ex-YMS-238

YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper:

  • Laid down 11 May 1942 by Stadium Yacht Basin Inc., Cleveland, OH
  • Launched 12 September 1942
  • Completed and commissioned USS YMS-238, 23 November 1942
  • Named Flamingo and reclassified as a Motor Minesweeper, AMS-11, 18 February 1947
    Naval Vessel Register of 1 January 1949 lists plan for decommissioning and placing in reserve as February 1947
  • Reclassified as a Coastal Minesweeper (Old), MSC(O)-11, 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 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, two 20mm mounts, and two depth charge projectors
  • Propulsion: Two 880bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear, two shafts.
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    YMS-293 115k YMS-238 moored between an unidentified YMS and YMS-293 Dave Page
    Son of Raymond H. Page
    Crew Member YMS-293
    View the Flamingo (AMS 11)
    DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Website
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    Naval Minewarfare Association
    Association of Minemen
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