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YDG-7



Call sign:
Nan - Jig - Yoke - Victor

ex-YMS-480
ex-PCS-1462

YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper: Laid down 25 May 1943 as Patrol Craft Sweeper, PCS-1462 by the Bellingham Marine Railway and Boatbuilding Co., Bellingham, WA; Reclassified as an Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper, YMS-480, 27 September 1943; Launched 20 November 1943; Reclassified as a District Degaussing Vessel, YDG-7, 23 December 1943; Completed 15 March 1944; Struck from the Navy Register 12 April 1946; Sold 27 August 1947. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 270 t.; Length 136'; Beam 24' 6"; Draft 8'; Speed 15 kts; Complement 32; Armament two 20mm mounts; Propulsion two 1,800shp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear, two shafts.

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for full size image		 Size Image Description Source
YMS-480 107k YDG-7 photographed by her builder on 21 March 1944.
National Archives photo 19-N-62838 from the Naval Historical Center		 Robert Hurst
There is no DANFS history available for YDG-7.
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