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YMS-54



Call sign: November - Echo - Quebec - Whiskey



YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper: Laid down, 20 May 1941 by the Gibbs Gas Engine Co., Jacksonville, FL; Launched, 1 November 1941; Completed, 9 February 1942; Commissioned USS YMS-54, (date unknown); Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, 19 June 1946. 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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YMS-54 56k . Jim Matley
YMS-54 182k . Jim Matley
YMS-54 72k Crew photo, Olongapo, Subic Bay, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 23 April 1946. Jim Matley

There is no DANFS History currently available for YMS-54 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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