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Reedbird (MSC[O] 51)
ex-AMS-51
ex-YMS-291



Call sign:
November - Golf - Tango - Zulu
YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper: Laid down, 29 January 1943 by Associated Shipbuilders, Seattle, WA; Launched, 20 April 1943; Completed, delivered and commissioned USS YMS-291, 9 August 1943; Decommissioned and placed in service, 1 November 1946 at Chicage, IL; Named Reedbird and reclassified as a Motor Minesweeper, AMS-51, 1 September 1947; Placed out of service in December 1949 at Orange, TX; Recommissioned, 15 February 1951; Reclassified as a Coastal Minesweeper (Old), MSC(O)-51, 7 February 1955; Decommissioned, 16 December 1957 at San Diego, CA and placed in service as a Reserve training ship; Placed out of service, stripped and struck from the Navy Register, 1 October 1968. 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, two dcp; Propulsion two 800bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear, two shafts.

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YMS-291
YMS-291 29k . Historical Collections of the Great Lakes
YMS-291 63k c. 1945 Domenic Salamida
via Tim Traver
YMS-291 109k c. 1945
Entering San Francisco Bay.		 Paul Bergstedt, Chief Engineer YMS-291
via Dirk Nansen
Reedbird (MSC[O] 51)
Reedbird 114k c. 1957
U.S. Navy photo from the April 1962 edition of All Hands magazine		 Joe Radigan
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