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YMS-402
Seagull (AMS / MSC[O] 55)


YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper: Laid down, 24 July 1942 by Henry B. Nevins, Inc., City Island, New York, NY; Launched, 17 April 1943; Commissioned as USS YMS-402, 26 June 1943; Decommissioned, 1 August 1946; Placed in service, 30 October 1946 for use as a Naval Reserve training ship; Named Seagull and reclassified as a Motor Minesweeper AMS-55, 1 September1947; Recommissioned, 10 May 1950; Reclassified as a Coastal Minesweeper, Old MSC(O)-55, 7 February 1955; Decommissioned, 11 October 1957; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 November 1959. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 320 t. (f); 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 1,000shp General Motors diesels, two shafts.
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