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YMS-271
Lorikeet (AMS / MSC[O] 49)

Courtesy of Mike Smolinski

YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper: Laid down, 3 July 1942 by the Bellingham Marine Railway and Boatbuilding Co., Bellingham, WA; Launched, 17 October 1942; Commissioned as USS YMS-271, 21 April 1943; Decommissioned, 19 July 1946 at Boston, MA; Placed in service, 1 September 1947 and reclassified as a Motor Minesweeper and named Lorikeet (AMS 49); Recommissioned, 17 March 1950; Reclassified as a Coastal Minesweeper (Old) MSC(O)-49, 7 February 1955; Decommissioned, 18 September 1957; Placed in service, 30 October 1959; Placed out of service, September 1968; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 October 1968 and scrapped.

Specifications: Displacement 215 t.; Length 136'; Beam 24' 6"; Draft 8'; Speed 13 kts; Complement 50; Armament, one single 3"/50 gun mount, two 20mm, 2 dct; Propulsion, two General Motors diesels, two shafts.
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YMS-271/94/183 69k YMS-271, YMS-94, and YMS-183 alongside an unidentified tender. Jim Matley
YMS-271 52k At Naval Air Station, Colon, Panama Canal. 22 June 1946. Slide 212. Richard W. Friedrich, F/1c, LSM-467

View the YMS-271 / Lorikeet (AMS / MSC(O) 49)
DANFS history entry located on 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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