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Seagull (MSC[O] 55)
AMS-55
ex-YMS-402



Call sign:
November - Papa - Alpha - Sierra
YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper:

  • Laid down 24 July 1942 by Henry B. Nevins, Inc., City Island, New York, NY
  • Launched 17 April 1943
  • Completed 25 June 1943
  • Commissioned USS YMS-402, 26 June 1943
  • Decommissioned 1 August 1946
  • Placed in service 30 October 1946 for use as a Naval Reserve training ship
    Naval Vessel Register of 1 January 1949 lists plan for placing in service as a Naval Reserve training ship as September 1947 in the 3rd Naval District (New York)
  • Named Seagull and reclassified as a Motor Minesweeper, AMS-55, 1 September 1947
  • Recommissioned 10 May 1950
  • Reclassified as a Coastal Minesweeper, (Old), MSC(O)-55, 7 February 1955
  • Decommissioned 11 October 1957
  • Struck from the Navy Register 1 November 1959 and sold
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 320 t.
  • Length 136'
  • Beam 24' 6"
  • Draft 6' 1"
  • Speed 13 kts.
  • Complement 33
  • Armament: One 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, two 20mm mounts, two depth charge tranck and two depth charge projectors
  • Propulsion: Two 800bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear, two shafts.
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    Seagull 103k Seagull (MSC[O] 55) BMC Ivor J. Steadman, USN, Ret.
    Seagull 66k In drydock
    Seagull 72k c. 1956
    Crew of Seagull. LT Lawrence Traynor, Commanding (Front row, center)
    Seagull 62k . Robert Hurst
    Commanding Officers
    01LTJG J. W. Gaines, USNR26 June 1943
    03LT Ralph Glover Spencer, USN1954
    04LT Lawrence Traynor, USN1956
    05LT Frank Stevenson Conlon, USNFebruary 1956 - October 1957
    Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves
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    Naval Minewarfare Association
    Association of Minemen
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