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YMS-454

Call sign:
November - Quebec - Victor - India

ex-PCS-1407

Destroyed 20 December 1945

PCS-1376 Class Patrol Craft Sweeper/YMS-1 Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper: Laid down 24 August 1943 as Patrol Craft Sweeper, PCS-1407 by the Greenport Basin and Construction Co., Greenport, NY; Reclassified as an Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper, YMS-454, 27 September 1943; Launched 23 October 1943; Completed 30 June 1944; Grounded in typhoon on Tsuken Shima, off Okinawa 9 October 1945; Destroyed 20 December 1945; Struck from the Naval Register 3 January 1946.

Specifications: Displacement 320 t.; Length 136'; Beam 24' 6"; Draft 6' 1"; Speed 12 kts; Complement 33; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, two 20mm, 2 dcp; Propulsion two 880shp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, two shafts.

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