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Lapwing (MSC[O] 48)
ex-AMS-48
ex-YMS-268



Call sign:
November - Foxtrot - Oscar - Mike
YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper: Laid down, 1 December 1942 by the Kruse and Banks Shipbuilding Co., North Bend, OR; Launched, 15 April 1943; Completed, 28 June 1943; Commissioned USS YMS-268, 31 July 1943; Decommissioned and placed in service as a Reserve Training Ship, 1 November 1946 at Chicago, IL; Named Lapwing and reclassified as a Motor Minesweeper, AMS-48, 1 September 1947; Recommissioned, 12 February 1951 at Orange, TX; Reclassified a Coastal Minesweeper (Old), MSC(O)-48, 7 February 1955; Decommissioned, 17 November 1957 at New York; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 November 1959; Sold to the Standard Products Co., Inc. of Kilmarnock, VA; Converted to menhaden fishing boat and renamed Weems; Sold in the early 1990s to a religious order from Ohio, that had plans to use it as an outward bound training ship, but not know if this ever materalized. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 236 t.; Length 136'; Beam 24' 6"; Draft 10'; Speed 15 kts; Complement 32; Armament, one single 3"/50 gun mount, two 20mm, two dct, two dcp; Propulsion, two 1,000shp General Motors diesels, two shafts.

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Peregrine 224k Right to left: Tutuila (ARG 4), Peregrine (AM 373), Fulmar (AMS 47), Hawk (AMS 17), Lapwing, and Cardinal (AMS 4).
U.S. Navy photo from the August 1959 edition of All Hands magazine		 Joe Radigan
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