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Lark (MSC[O] 23)
ex-AMS-23
ex-YMS-376
Call sign:
November - Delta - Golf - Whiskey
Lark served the Navies of the United States and Japan.
YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper: Laid down 5 January 1943 by the Greenport Basin and Construction Co., Greenport, Long Island, NY; Launched, 13 March 1943; Completed 9 August 1943; Commissioned as USS YMS-376, 10 August 1943 at New York City; Decommissioned, 6 June 1946 at San Diego, CA; Named Lark and reclassified as a Motor Minesweeper, AMS-23, 17 February 1947; Recommissioned, 8 November 1950 at Alameda, CA; Decommissioned, 13 November 1953 at Astoria, OR; Reclassified as a Coastal Minesweeper (Old), MSC(O)-23, 7 February 1955; Transferred to Japan, 14 February 1955 as Ninoshima (MSC 262); Struck from the Navy Register in 1967. Fate unknown.
Specifications: Displacement 270 t.; Length 136'; Beam 25'; Draft 8'; Speed 15 kts; Complement 32; Armament, one 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, two 20mm mounts, two dct, two dcp; Propulsion two 1,000bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear, two shafts.
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Association of Minemen
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