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YMS-317
Grosbeak (AMS / MSC(O) 14)
YMS-136 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper: Laid down, 30 October 1943 by the South Coast Co., Newport Beach, CA; Launched, 27 February 1943; Commissioned as USS YMS-317, 18 November 1943; Named Grosbeak and reclassified as an Auxiliary Minesweeper AMS-14, 18 February 1947; Reclassified as a Coastal Minesweeper (Old) MSC(O)-14, 7 February 1955; Decommissioned, 7 December 1955 at Green Cove Springs, FL; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 November 1959. Fate unknown.
Specifications: Displacement 270 t.; Length 136'; Beam 24' 6"; Draft 8'; Speed 13 kts; Complement 50; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount; Propulsion two 1,000 shp diesel engines, two shafts.
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