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YMS-294
Redpoll (AMS / MSC(O) 57)
YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper: Laid down, 10 June 1943 by Associated Shipbuilders, Lake Union, Seattle, WA; Launched, 11 August 1943; Commissioned USS YMS-294, 11 September 1943; Completed, 9 November 1943; Decommissioned, 12 November 1945 and placed in service at New Orleans, LA; Named and redesignated a Motor Minesweeper Redpoll (AMS 57), 1 September 1947; Recommissioned, 20 November 1950; Redesignated a Coastal Minesweeper (Old) MSC(O)-57, 7 February 1955; Decommissioned and placed in service, 8 November 1955; Placed out of service and struck from the Naval Register, 1 July 1959; Converted to an Oceanographic Research Vessel in 1960 and renamed Sir Horace Lamb and assigned to Columbia University's Geophysical Field Station, Saint David's, Bermuda.
Fate unknown.
Specifications: Displacement 320 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 General Motors diesel engines, two shafts.
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