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Sanderling (MHC 49)
ex-AMCU-49
ex-AMS-35
ex-YMS-446



Call sign:
November - Charlie - Romeo - Zulu

ex-PCS-1393

YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Mine Sweeper: Laid down, 22 May 1943 by Robert Jacobs, Inc., City Island, NY as a Patrol Craft Sweeper, PCS-1393; Reclassified as an Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper, YMS-446, 27 September 1943; Launched, 26 February 1944; Completed 8 June 1944; Commissioned USS YMS-446, 9 June 1944; Reclassified as a Motor Minesweeper, AMS-35 and named Sanderling 18 February 1947; Reclassified as a Coastal Minesweeper (Underwater Locator), AMCU-49, 1 February 1955; Reclassified as a Coastal Minehunter, MHC-49, 7 February 1955; Decommissioned, 14 November 1957 at Green Cove Springs, FL; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 November 1959. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 270 t.; Length 136'; Beam 24' 6"; Draft 8'; Speed 15 kts; Complement 32; Armament one 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, two 20mm, two dcp; Propulsion two 800bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear, two shafts.

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YMS-446 218k Courtesy of the City Island Nautical Museum Tom Nye
YMS-446 91k 30 June 1944 Robert Hurst
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