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Parrakeet (AMS 30)
ex-YMS-434



Call sign:
November - Quebec - Victor - Charlie
YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper: Laid down 30 October 1943 by the J. M. Martinac Shipbuilding Co., Tacoma, WA; Launched 10 May 1944; Completed and commissioned USS YMS-434, 15 November 1944; Reclassified as a Motor Minesweeper and named Parrakeet (AMS 30), 18 February 1947; Decommissioned 21 May 1947 at Puget Sound, WA; Struck from the Naval Register 23 June 1947; Sold 9 October 1947 and renamed Dan; Stranded in Queen Charlotte Sound, British Columbia, Canada, 30 March 1949 and declared a loss.

Specifications: Displacement 350 t.; Length 136'; Beam 24' 6"; Draft 6' 1"; Speed 12 kts; Complement 50; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount and two 20mm; Propulsion two 500shp General Motors diesel engines, two shafts.

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YMS-434 242k c. 1946
At anchor in San Francisco Bay upon return to the states after the end of WWII. Alcatraz Island is barely seen aft of the ship
Photo courtesy of LTJG Irvin Atkinson.		 Galen Atkinson
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