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Redpoll (MSC[O] 57)
ex-AMS-57
ex-YMS-294



Call sign:
November - Golf - Xray - Yankee
YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper: Laid down, 10 June 1943 by Associated Shipbuilders, Lake Union, Seattle, WA; Launched, 11 August 1943; Commissioned USS YMS-294, 11 September 1943; Completed and delivered 9 November 1943; Decommissioned, 12 November 1945 and placed in service at New Orleans, LA; Named Redpoll and reclassified as a Motor Minesweeper, AMS-57, 1 September 1947; Recommissioned, 20 November 1950; Reclassified a Coastal Minesweeper (Old), MSC(O)-57, 7 February 1955; Decommissioned 8 November 1957 and placed in service as a Naval Reserve training ship at Chattanooga, TN; Placed out of service and struck from the Navy Register 1 July 1959; Converted to an Oceanographic Research Vessel in 1960, renamed Sir Horace Lamb and assigned to Columbia University's Geophysical Field Station, Saint David's, Bermuda; Scrapped 1 December 1976.

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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USS Redpoll (MSC[O] 57)
Redpoll 104k . Richard Mellor
Former crew member (ET3)
R/V Sir Horace Lamb
R/V Sir Horace Lamb 114k . Office of the Oceanographer of the Navy
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