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NavSource Online: Mine Warfare Vessel Photo Archive

Ruff (MSC[O] 54)
ex-AMS-54
ex-YMS-327

YMS-327 call sign:
November - Quebec - Foxtrot - Delta

YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper: Laid down, 2 June 1942 by the Ballard Marine Railway Co. Inc, Seattle, WA; Launched, 5 December 1942; Completed and commissioned USS YMS-327, 19 April 1943; Decommissioned, 2 August 1946; Named Ruff and reclassified as an Motor Minesweeper, AMS-54, 1 September 1947; Recommissioned, 10 March 1951; Reclassified as a Coastal Minesweeper (Old), MSC(O)-54, 7 February 1955; Decommissioned 13 December 1957 and placed in service, in reserve; Placed in service as a Reserve Training ship, 30 October 1959; Placed out of service and struck from the Naval Register, 14 November 1969 and subsequently sold. The last ship of her class to leave the Navy. 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 880shp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, two shafts.

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Source
YMS-327
	196k	.	Kathy Wagner daughter of crew member Richard Sullivan
	119k	.	Kathy Wagner daughter of crew member Richard Sullivan
	139k	Sunset at sea.	Kathy Wagner daughter of crew member Richard Sullivan
	201k	Crew members	Kathy Wagner daughter of crew member Richard Sullivan
	31k	c. 1943 Midshipman Edward F. Moore, Jr.	Patti Zapalac
	37k	c. 1943 Ensign Edward Moore	Patti Zapalac
	55k	Edward Moore, Jim Maury and the Commanding Officer, LT Robert S. Marshall	Patti Zapalac
	45k	Jim Maury, Captain Marshall and Edward Moore	Patti Zapalac
	35k	Jim Maury, Captain Marshall, Edward Moore and unidentified crew member	Patti Zapalac
	55k	Ships mascot	Patti Zapalac
	50k	Ships mascot with crewmembers. Richard Sullivan is on the right.	Patti Zapalac
Ruff (MSC[O] 54)
	117k	.	Arnold R. Hofmann, CDR, SC, USN, Retired