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Hawk (MSC[O] 17)
ex-AMS-17
ex-YMS-362



Call sign:
November - Charlie - Mike - Whiskey
YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper:

  • Laid down 24 November 1942 by Robert Jacobs Inc., City Island, NY
  • Launched 22 May 1943
  • Completed 30 September 1943
  • Commissioned USS YMS-362, 4 October 1943
  • Named Hawk and reclassified as a Motor Minesweeper, AMS-17, 17 February 1947
  • Reclassified as a Coastal Minesweeper (Old), MSC(O)-17, 7 February 1955
  • Struck from the Navy Register 17 October 1957 and sold
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 245 t.
  • Length 136'
  • Beam 22' 9"
  • Draft 6' 3"
  • Speed 14.5 kts.
  • Complement 50
  • Armament: One 3"/50 dual purpose mount, two 20mm mounts and two depth charge projectors
  • Propulsion: Two 880bhp General Motors 8-268A diesels, Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear, two shafts.
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    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    YMS-362
    YMS-362 1265k Underway off Iwo Jima during invasion operations there in February 1945. Photographed from USS Nevada (BB-36).
    National Archives photo 80-G-303838    		 Original photo: Naval War College
    Replacement photo: Naval Historical Center
    Hawk (AMS 17)
    Peregrine 224k Right to left: Tutuila (ARG 4), Peregrine (AM 373), Fulmar (AMS 47), Hawk, Lapwing (AMS 48), and Cardinal (AMS 4).
    U.S. Navy photo from the August 1959 edition of All Hands magazine    		 Joe Radigan
    Commanding Officers
    01LT J. W. Starbuck, Jr., USN4 October 1943
    ??LT Franklin Peter Faughman, USN1952
    Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves
    View the Hawk (MSC[O] 17)
    DANFS history entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway web site
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    Naval Minewarfare Association
    Association of Minemen
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