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YMS-380



Call sign:
Nan - Fox - King - Zebra


YMS-380 served the Navies of the United States and Norway.
YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper:

  • Laid down 6 April 1943 by the Greenport Basin and Construction Co., Greenport, NY
  • Launched 29 May 1943
  • Completed 27 September 1943 and commissioned USS YMS-380
  • Transferred to Norway 22 March 1945 reclassified NYMS-380 and later named Vorma (M 321)
  • Returned to U.S. custody 7 June 1948 (on paper); transferred to the State Department, Foreign Liquidation Commission and sold to Norway the same day
  • Struck from the Naval Register 12 August 1948
  • Struck from the Norwegian Navy list in 1959
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 270 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, two depth charge projectors and two depth charge tracks
  • 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-380 276k From the collection of crewmember George Meier Jim Meier
    YMS-305/380/406 149k YMS-305, YMS-406 and YMS-380 in a French port sometime after D-Day George Meier
    There is no DANFS history currently available for YMS-380
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