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YMS-1



Call sign: November - Alpha - Echo - Hotel



YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Mine Sweeper: Laid down, 1941 by Henry B. Nevins Inc., City Island, NY; Launched, 10 January 1942; Commissioned USS YMS-1, (date unknown); Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown). 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-1 101k Launching
Courtesy of the City Island Nautical Museum
Tom Nye

There is no DANFS history available for YMS-1 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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