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YMS-1



Call sign:
Nan - Able - Easy - How
YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper:

  • Laid down 4 March 1941 by Henry B. Nevins Inc., City Island, NY
  • Launched 10 January 1942
  • Completed 25 March 1942
  • Struck from the Naval Register 17 April 1946
  • Transferred to the War Shipping Administration in March 1948
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 270 t.
  • Length 136'
  • Beam 24' 6"
  • Draft 8'
  • Speed 15 kts.
  • Complement 32
  • Armament: One 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, two 20mm mounts, and two depth charge projectors
  • Propulsion: Two 880bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear, two shafts.
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    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    YMS-1 101k Launching
    Courtesy of the City Island Nautical Museum    		 Tom Nye
    Commanding Officers
    01LT H. R. Pierce, Jr., USNR1943
    02LT Robert Neville Compton, USNR1945
    Courtesy Joe Radigan
    There is no DANFS history available for YMS-1
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