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YMS-430 / AMS-29 / MSC-29 Ostrich


YMS-135 Class Auxiliary Motor Mine Sweeper: Laid down, 10 November 1943 at the Tacoma Boat Building Co., Tacoma, WA; Launched, 23 March 1944; Commissioned USS YMS-430, 10 October 1944; Immobilized and placed in reduced commission, 3 July 1946 due to a lack of personnel; Placed in full commission, 10 December 1946; Redesignated a Motor Minesweeper and renamed USS Ostrich (AMS-29), 18 February 1947; Redesignated as a Coastal Minesweeper (MSC), 7 February 1955; Decommissioned, January 1958 at Green Cove Springs, FL; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 November 1959; Sold for scrap early 1960.

Specifications: Displacement 290 t.; Length 136'; Beam 24' 6"; Draft 6'; Speed 12 kts; Complement 50; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, two 20mm, 2 dep; Propulsion diesel.
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Ostrich 108k Off Newport, RI. 1 June 1955. © Atlantic Fleet Sales. Photo by Nobe Smith

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