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YMS-8



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

  • Laid down 23 January 1942 by Henry B. Nevins Inc., City Island, NY
  • Launched 2 June 1942
  • Completed 27 June 1942
  • Struck from the Naval Register 19 June 1946
  • Transferred to the State Department, Foreign Liquidation Commission in October 1947
  • 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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    YMS-8 279k YMS-8 and YMS-48 cleaning a pathway through the mines off Bataan peninsula, these hardy little minesweepers can work under severe Japanese coastal bombardment. Despite Army air cover overhead, the enemy shore guns sank the motor minesweeper YMS-48 and damaged the destroyers Fletcher [DD-445] and Hopewell [DD-681]. On the following day, a naval task group landed Army troops on the peninsula and a short time thereafter resistance ceased on Corregidor and Bataan
    Painting, Watercolor on Paper by Dwight C. Shepler; 1945; Accession No. 88-199-GK    		 Naval History and Heritage Command
    Photo added 5 February 2021
    YMS-53 184k 28 December 1945
    Shanghai, China
    YMS-338, YMS-6, YMS-8, YMS-53 and YMS-51 were just a portion of the mine sweeping force tied-up along the Huangpu River
    Photo from the collection of LTJG Jack W. Norris, XO, YMS-56    		 Paul Norris
    There is no DANFS history available for YMS-8
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