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YMS-325



Call sign:
Nan - Queen - Baker - Zebra
YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper:

  • Laid down 22 July 1943 by the Al Larson Boat Shop, Inc., Terminal Island, CA
  • Launched 11 January 1944
  • Completed 7 April 1944
  • Struck from the Naval Register 5 March 1947
  • Transferred to the War Shipping Administration in May 1947
  • Sold 16 January 1948
  • Fate unknown.

    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 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-325 367k Moored alongside LCI(L)-1011 Tommy Trampp
    Commanding Officers
    01LT J. N. Ferguson, USNR1945
    Courtesy Joe Radigan
    There is no DANFS History currently available for YMS-325
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    Association of Minemen
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