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Lorikeet (MSC[O] 49)
ex-AMS-49
ex-YMS-271



Call sign:
November - Foxtrot - Quebec - Golf
YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper: Laid down, 3 July 1942 by the Bellingham Marine Railway and Boatbuilding Co., Bellingham, WA; Launched, 17 October 1942; Completed and commissioned USS YMS-271, 21 April 1943; Decommissioned, 19 July 1946 at Boston, MA; Placed in service, 1 September 1947 and reclassified as a Motor Minesweeper and named Lorikeet (AMS 49); Recommissioned, 17 March 1950; Reclassified as a Coastal Minesweeper (Old), MSC(O)-49, 7 February 1955; Decommissioned, 18 September 1957; Placed in service, 30 October 1959; Placed out of service in September 1968; Struck from the Navy Register 1 October 1968 and scrapped.

Specifications: Displacement 215 t.; Length 136'; Beam 24' 6"; Draft 8'; Speed 13 kts; Complement 50; Armament, one 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, two 20mm mounts, two dct; Propulsion two 880bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear, two shafts.

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USS YMS-271
YMS-271/94/183 69k YMS-271, YMS-94, and YMS-183 alongside an unidentified tender. Jim Matley
YMS-271 52k 22 June 1946
At Naval Air Station Colon, Panama Canal.		 Richard W. Friedrich, F/1c, LSM-467
USS Lorikeet (MSC[O] 49)
Bluebird 95k USN Minecraft Base, Charleston, SC. View of Pier Baker from Ashley Riverw showing crowded mooring condition at pier.
U.S. Navy photo		 Robert Hall
View the Lorikeet (MSC[O] 49)
DANFS history entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway web site
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Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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