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YMS-449



Call sign:
Nan - Charlie - Uncle - Peter

ex-PCS-1398

YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper:

  • Laid down 5 June 1943 as PCS-1398 by the South Coast Co., Newport Beach, CA
  • Reclassified as an Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper, YMS-449, 27 September 1943
  • Launched 29 February 1944
  • Completed and commissioned USS YMS-449, 7 July 1944
  • Struck from the Naval Register 19 July 1946
  • Transferred to the War Shipping Administration 6 February 1947 and sold
  • 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 mounts, and two depth charge projectors
  • Propulsion: Two 880bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear, two shafts.
    Click on thumbnail
    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    YMS-449 54k 15 July 1944
    U.S. Navy photo    		 Hyperwar
    U.S. Navy in World War II
    YMS-449 155k San Francisco Bay, circa 1945
    Courtesy of Donald McPherson, 1976
    Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 84990    		 Mike Green
    There is no DANFS history available for YMS-449
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