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YMS-475



Call sign:
November - Quebec - Zulu - Papa

ex-PCS-1447

YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper: Laid down 30 April 1943 as Patrol Craft Sweeper, PCS-1447 by the San Diego Marine Construction Co., San Diego, CA; Reclassified as an Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper, YMS-475, 7 October 1943; Launched 23 May 1944; Completed 16 August 1944; Struck from the Naval Register 29 October 1946; Sold 21 January 1947. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 270 t.; Length 136'; Beam 24' 6"; Draft 8'; Speed 15 kts; Complement 32; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, two 20mm, and two dcp; Propulsion two 880shp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, two shafts.

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YMS-475 65k USS YMS-475 and USS YMS-461 in San Francisco Bay, California, shortly after the end of World War II, circa late 1945 or early 1946. YMS-461 later became USS Swallow (AMS-36).
Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1976.
U.S. Navy photo NH 84992		 Naval Historical Center
There is no DANFS history available for YMS-475.
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