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YMS-404


YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper: Laid down, 10 August 1942 by Henry B. Nevins, Inc., City Island, NY; Launched, 26 May 1943; Completed and commissioned USS YMS-404, 6 August 1943; Decommissioned (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, 25 February 1947; Sold, 3 December 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, two dcp; Propulsion two 1,000shp General Motors diesel engines, two shafts.
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YMS-404 178k Launching
Photo courtesy of the City Island Nautical Museum
Tom Nye
YMS-404 167k U. S. Navy photo DANFS

There is no DANFS history available for YMS-404 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.

Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen

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