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James M. Gillis (MHC 13)
ex-AMCU-13



AMCU-13 call sign:
Nan - Dog - Jig - Uncle

ex-AGSC-13
ex-AGS-13
ex-YMS-262

YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper/Harkness Class Coastal Minesweeper (Underwater Locator): Laid down, 6 September 1942 by the South Coast Shipbuilding Co., Newport Beach, CA; Launched, 24 December 1942; Completed, 11 August 1943; Commissioned USS YMS-262, 15 September 1943; Converted to a Survey Ship and named James M. Gillis (AGS 13), 23 March 1945 at the California Shipbuilding Corp., Wilmington, CA; Reclassified as a Coastal Survey Ship, AGSC-13, 29 July 1946; Decommissioned, 22 September 1950; Converted to a Coastal Minesweeper (Underwater Locator),
AMCU-13, 18 August 1951 at the New York Naval Shipyard, Brooklyn, NY; Recommissioned, 5 September 1951; Reclassified as a Coastal Minehunter, MHC-13, 1 February 1955; Decommissioned, 6 August 1958 at Green Cove Springs, FL; Struck from the Navy Register 1 January 1960. Sold for scrap 17 June 1960 to the Marlene Blouse Corp. of New York.

Specifications: Displacement 340 t.; Length 136'; Beam 23' 4"; Draft 8' 7"; Speed 14.5 kts.; Complement 60; Armament one 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, two 20mm, two dct, two dcp; Propulsion two 1,000bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear, two shafts.

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USS James M. Gillis (AGS 13)
AGS-13/14 59k Seen here as USS John M. Gillis (AGS 13) outboard of USS Simon Newcomb (AGS 14). Steve Remer
YMS-242/262/263 107k In forground at the Brooklyn Navy Yard is Simon Newcomb (AGS 14), Harkness (AGS 12), and James M. Gillis. Astern is the "mother ship" Tanner (AGS 15). LST-664 is moored at another pier with an unidentified LST outboard. George W. Desharnais
USS James M. Gillis (AGSC 13)
James M. Gilliss 106k Seen here off the coast of Labrador, c. 1949. On her fantail is the helicopter from Tanner being taken to Goose Bay for repairs.
U.S. Navy photo		 Office of the Oceanographer of the Navy
James M. Gilliss 141k c. 1948/1950
Sea trial in New York before heading up to Newfoundland, Canada for a survey run.		 Walt Parfenuk
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