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Goldfinch (MSC[O] 12)
ex-AMS-12
ex-YMS-306



Call sign:
November - Papa - Kilo - Foxtrot
YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper: Laid down, 7 September 1942 by Rice Brothers Corp., Boothbay, ME; Launched, 27 November 1942; Completed, 18 January 1944; Commissioned as USS YMS-306, 20 January 1944; Named Goldfinch and reclassified as an Auxiliary Minesweeper, AMS-12, 17 February 1947; Reclassified as a Coastal Minesweeper (Old), MSC(O)-12, 7 February 1955; Decommissioned, 11 October 1957 at Philadelphia, PA; Struck from the Naval Register, 2 November 1957; Sold, 2 June 1960 to the Maine Vocational Technical Institute. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 270 t.; Length 136'; Beam 24' 6"; Draft 8'; Speed 13 kts; Complement 50; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount; Propulsion two 1,000 shp diesel engines, two shafts.

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YMS-306 53k . Joe Radigan
MSC(O)-12 85k c. mid-1956
Entering harbor at Havana, Cuba.		 Rob Benson
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