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YMS-461 / AMS / MSC(O)-36 Swallow


YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Mine Sweeper: Laid down 8 June 1943 at Stadium Yacht Basin Inc., Cleveland Ohio; Launched 8 January 1944; Commissioned USS YMS-461, 22 June 1944; Redesignated a Motor Minesweeper (AMS) and renamed Swallow (AMS-36), 18 February 1947; Redesignated Coastal Minesweeper, Old (MSC(O)-36), 7 February 1955; Decommissioned 16 April 1955 and loaned to the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force, renamed Yugeshima (MSC-660), later YAS-41; Returned to U.S. custody 1 May 1968 and struck from the Naval Register that same day; Final Dispositon, sold for scrapping 5 September 1969 to Kitajima Choke Co., Sasebo Japan.

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, two dcp; Propulsion diesel.
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YMS-461
In San Francisco Bay, California, shortly after
the end of World War II, circa late 1945 or early 1946.

US Navy photo (NH 84992)
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Gull 124k Swallow (AMS-36) and
Gull (AMS-16)

Tied up at Chinnampo, North Korea, in November 1950,
after taking part in clearing a channel more that sixty
miles inland from the Yellow Sea and up the Taedong
River to Chinnampo.
Note flags and sweep gear at the ships' sterns, including
depressors hanging over the transoms, otters on deck
and floats and cable reels further forward.
US Navy photo (80-G-423775)
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DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site. The main archive for the DANFS Online Project.

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Association of Minemen
First Ships into Tokyo Bay
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