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YMS-268
Lapwing (AMS / MSC(O)- 48)


YMS-135 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper: Laid down, 1 December 1942 by the Kruse and Banks Shipbuilding Co., North Bend, OR; Launched, 15 April 1943; Commissioned as USS YMS-268, 31 July 1943; Decommissioned and placed in service as a Reserve Training Ship, 1 November 1946 at Chicago, IL; Named Lapwing and reclassified as a Motor Minesweeper AMS-48, 1 September 1947; Recommissioned, 12 February 1951 at Orange, TX; Reclassified a Coastal Minesweeper (Old) MSC(O)-48, 7 February 1955; Decommissioned, 17 November 1957 at New York; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 November 1959. Fate unknown. YMS-268 received one battle star for World War II service.

Specifications: Displacement 236 t.; Length 136'; Beam 24' 6"; Draft 10'; Speed 15 kts; Complement 32; Armament, one single 3"/50 gun mount, two 20mm, two dct, two dcp; Propulsion, two 1,000shp General Motors diesels, two shafts.
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