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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:

  • The second Plover was laid down 12 October 1943 as YMS-442 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 as 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 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, two 20mm mounts, two depth charge tracks and two depth charge projectors
  • Propulsion: Two 880bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear, two shafts.
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    USS Plover (MSC [O] 33)
    Plover 90k . Joe Radigan
    Plover
    Plover 119k Plover 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.
    Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 79480    		 Tony Cowart
    Commanding Officers
    05LT Richard Yates Scott, USNDecember 1948 - June 1951
    Courtesy of Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves
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    DANFS history entry located on the Naval Historical Center web site
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    Naval Minewarfare Association
    Association of Minemen
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