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YMS-276



Call sign:
Nan - Fox - Xray - Uncle
YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper:

  • Laid down 21 November 1942 by the Bellingham Marine Railway and Boat Building Co., Bellingham, WA
  • Launched 5 March 1943
  • Completed 22 September 1943, commissioned USS YMS-276 and assigned to the Pacific Fleet
  • Present in Tokyo Bay during Japanese surrender ceremony in September 1945
  • Decommissioned 14 May 1946
  • Struck from the Naval Register 7 February 1947
  • Transferred to the War Shipping Administration in October 1947
  • Registered in 1949 to Russell Wolf of Harvey, LA as the miscellaneous vessel Wolf IV out of New Orleans, LA
  • Registered in 1950 to Wolf and Co., Russell Inc. of Harvey, LA as the miscellaneous vessel Wolf IV out of New Orleans
  • Burned 23 September 1953 at the company's dock 4½ miles south of Harvey Locks at New Orleans, LA.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 270 t.
    259 t.
  • Length 136'
    1949 - 125.2'
  • Beam 23' 4"
    1949 - 24.8'
  • Draft 8' 7"
    1949 - 11.6'
  • Speed 14 kts.
  • Complement 60
    1949 - 10
  • Armament: One 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, two 20mm mounts, two depth charge tracks 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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    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    YMS-276 215k From the collection of crewmember George Meier Jim Meier
    YMS-140 & 248 264k c. 1946
    Guam
    In a floating dry dock forward of YMS-140
    Photo from the collection of William A. Powley, SC3c, crewmember YMS-140    		 Pamela (Powley) Lindenau
    Commanding Officers
    01LT Richard H. Lawrence, USNR22 September 1943 - 1945
    02LTJG T. C. Clark, USNR1945
    Courtesy Joe Radigan
    There is no DANFS History currently available for YMS-276
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