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YMS-329



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

  • Laid down 20 November 1942 by the Ballard Marine Railway Co., Inc., Seattle, WA
  • Launched 23 February 1943
  • Completed 3 July 1943
  • Damaged by a mine during sweep operations at Tarakan, Borneo 28 April 1945
  • Struck from the Naval Register 19 June 1946
  • Destroyed 6 February 1948.

    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 one depth charge projector
  • Propulsion: Two 880bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear, two shafts.
    Click on thumbnail
    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    YMS-329 335k 31 December 1944
    Muster Roll of the crew    		 Kathie Schwend
    YMS-398 179k 27 May 1946
    Subic Bay, Philippines
    Following YMS-398
    Photo by Leonor Art Studios, Olongapo, Subic Bay, Philippines
    Photo from the collection of Albert F. Lipp    		 Thomas Lipp
    Photo added 19 March 2020
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