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YMS-312
Grackle (AMS / MSC(O) 13)


Grackle served the Navies of the United States and Brazil.

YMS-136 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper: Laid down, 7 June 1943 by Henry B. Nevins Inc., City Island, NY; Launched, 9 November 1943; Completed, 4 December 1943; Commissioned as USS YMS-312, 6 December 1943; Named Grackle and reclassified as an Auxiliary Minesweeper AMS-13, 18 February 1947; Reclassified as a Coastal Minesweeper (Old) MSC(O)-13, 7 February 1955; Decommissioned, 11 October 1957 at Philadelphia, PA; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 March 1963; Transferred to the Government of Brazil 19 April 1963 under terms of the Military Assistance Program and renamed Jurvena (M-14). 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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YMS-312 62k Launching
Courtesy of the City Island Nautical Museum
Tom Nye

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U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

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