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YMS-395
Linnet (AMS / MSC(O) 24)

Courtesy of Mike Smolinski
YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Mine Sweeper: Laid down, 11 July 1942 by Harbor Boat Building; Launched, 15 July 1943; Commissioned USS YMS-395, 20 November 1943; Renamed and reclassified as a Motor Minesweeper, USS Linnet (AMS 24), 18 February 1947; Reclassified as a Coastal Minesweeper, Old, (MSC(O)-24), 7 February 1955; Decommissioned, 13 September 1957 at Philadelphia, PA; Placed in service as a Naval Reserve training ship, 30 October 1959; Placed out of service, 3 September 1968; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 October 1968; 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, (replaced by one single 40mm gun mount, date unknown) two 20mm gun mounts, two dcp; Propulsion diesel.
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