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YMS-260
YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Mine Sweeper: Laid down, 20 May 1942 at Hubbards' South Coast Co., Newport Beach, CA; Launched, 6 September 1942; Commissioned as USS YMS-260, 9 April 1943; Decommissioned (date unknown); Transferred to the USSR, 2 August 1945; Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown). YMS-260 has never been returned to U. S. custody. Final Disposition, fate unknown.
Specifications: Displacement 215 t.; Length 136'; Beam 24' 6"; Draft 6'; Speed 13 kts; Complement 50; Armament, one single 3"/50 gun mount, two 20mm, 2 dct; Propulsion, two General Motors diesels, two shafts, 1,000 BHP.
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There is no DANFS history available for YMS-260 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
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Association of Minemen
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