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Grouse (MSC[O] 15)
ex-AMS-16
ex-YMS-321
Call sign:
November - Quebec - Alpha - Alpha
Destroyed 28 September 1963
YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper: Laid down, 29 August 1942 by the Al Larson Boat Shop Inc., Terminal Island, CA; Launched, 20 February 1943; Completed and commissioned as USS YMS-321, 25 October 1943; Named Grouse and reclassified as a Motor Minesweeper, AMS-15, 18 February 1947; Reclassified as a Coastal Minesweeper (Old), MSC(O)-15, 7 February 1955; Decommissioned, 12 September 1957 and placed in reserve at Portland, ME; Placed in service, 13 November 1958; Ran aground 21 September 1963 at Rockport, MA on the Little Salvages at Latitude 42° 40' 24"N, Longitude 70° 34' 29"W ; Destroyed by explosives, 28 September 1963 and struck from the Naval Register.
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 500shp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, two shafts.
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