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Hummer (MSC[O] 20)
ex-AMS-20
ex-YMS-372
Call sign:
November - Charlie - Zulu - Delta
Hummer served the Navies of the United States and Japan.
YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper: Laid down, 11 December 1942 by Weaver Shipyards, Orange, TX; Launched, 23 December 1943; Completed and commissioned USS YMS-372, 28 March 1944; Named Hummer and reclassified as a Motor Minesweeper, AMS-20, 18 February 1947; Reclassified as a Coastal Minesweeper (Old), MSC(O)-20, 7 February 1955; Decommissioned, 23 June 1946; Recommissioned, 3 November 1950; Decommissioned, 13 November 1953 at Long Beach, CA; Struck from the Naval Register, 12 February 1959; Transferred to Japan 16 March 1959 as Ninoshima (MSC 662).
Fate unknown.
Specifications: Displacement 245 t.; Length 136'; Beam 22' 9"; Draft 6' 3"; Speed 14.5 kts; Complement 50; Armament one single 3"/50; Propulsion two 880shp General Motors diesel engines, two shafts.
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