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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 as USS YMS-402, 26 June 1943; Decommissioned, 1 August 1946; Placed in service, 30 October 1946 for use as a Naval Reserve training ship; Named Seagull and reclassified as a Motor Minesweeper, AMS-55, 1 September1947; 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. (f); Length 136'; Beam 24' 6"; Draft 6' 1"; Speed 13 kts; Complement 33; Armament, one 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, two 20mm, two dct, two dcp; Propulsion two 800bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear, two shafts.
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Swallow (MSC[O] 55) |
BMC Ivor J. Steadman, USN, Ret. |
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In drydock |
BMC Ivor J. Steadman, USN, Ret. |
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c. 1956
Crew of Swallow. LT Lawrence Traynor, Commanding (Front row, center) |
BMC Ivor J. Steadman, USN, Ret. |
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Robert Hurst |
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