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Grosbeak (MSC[O] 14)
ex-AMS-14
ex-YMS-317



Call sign:
November - Papa - Whiskey - Foxtrot
YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper: Laid down 30 October 1942 by the South Coast Co., Newport Beach, CA; Launched 27 February 1943; Commissioned as USS YMS-317, 18 November 1943; Named Grosbeak and reclassified as a Motor Minesweeper, AMS-14, 18 February 1947; Reclassified as a Coastal Minesweeper (Old), MSC(O)-14, 7 February 1955; Decommissioned 7 December 1955 at Green Cove Springs, FL; Struck from the Navy Register 1 November 1959. 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 880bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, two shafts.

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