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YMS-47

Call sign: November - Echo - Delta - Xray
YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper: Laid down, 26 June 1941 by the Wheeler Ship Building Corp., Brooklyn, NY; Launched, 7 May 1942; Completed, 2 July 1942; Commissioned USS YMS-47, (date unknown); Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, 24 October 1945. Fate unknown.
Specifications: Displacement 320 t.; Length 136'; Beam 24' 6"; Draft 6' 1"; Speed 13 kts; Complement 33; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, two 20mm, two dct, two dcp; Propulsion two General Motors diesel engines, two shafts.
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