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Grouse (MSC[O] 15)
ex-AMS-15
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 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, two 20mm mounts and two depth charge projectors
  • Propulsion: Two 880bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, Snow and KNobstedt single reduction gear, two shafts.
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    YMS-321 87k AMS-15 Joe Radigan
    Commanding Officers
    01LTJG Newman, USN25 October 1943
    ??LTJG James R. Gross, USN1952
    ??LTJG K. G. Houghton, USN13 November 1958
    ??LTJG James R. Gross, USN1952
    08LT William Frank Regan, USN.
    ??LCDR Allen E. McCartney, USN1963
    Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler, Ron Reeves and Joe Radigan
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