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Plover (MSC[O] 33)
ex-AMS-33
ex-YMS-442



Call sign:
November - Charlie - Lima - India
YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper: Laid down 12 October 1943 by the C. Hiltebrant Drydock Co., Kingston, NY; Launched 20 April 1944; Completed 13 October 1944; Commissioned USS YMS-442, 14 October 1944; Reclassified as a Motor Minesweeper and named Plover (AMS 33), 18 February 1947; Reclassified a Coastal Minesweeper (Old), MSC(O)-33, 7 February 1955; Struck from the Naval Register 1 October 1968. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 215 t.; Length 136'; Beam 24' 6"; Draft 6' 1"; Speed 12 kts; Complement 50; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount and two 20mm, two depth charge tracks and two depth charge projectors; Propulsion two 500shp General Motors diesel engines, two shafts.

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Plover 90k . Joe Radigan
Plover 119k USS Plover (MSCO-33) awaiting disposal while laid up at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Pennsylvania, 20 January 1969. The minesweeper alongside her is probably USS Lorikeet (MSCO-49). Among the ship in the center background are USS Sigourney (DD-643) -- 2nd destroyer from left in the middle distance -- and USS Salamonie (AO-26) -- in the far distance.
Courtesy of David Hahn, 1974.
U.S. Navy photo NH 79480		 Naval Historical Center viaTony Cowart
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