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YMS-43



Call sign:
November - Bravo - Yankee - Echo


YMS-43 served the Navies of the United States and France.
YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper:

  • Laid down 12 June 1941 by the Wheeler Ship Building Corp., Brooklyn, NY
  • Launched 30 March 1942
  • Completed 11 May 1942
  • Commissioned USS YMS-43
  • Transferred to France 20 October 1944 and named Lotus (D 324)
  • Sold to France 21 March 1949
  • Struck from the Naval Register 28 April 1949
  • 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, two shafts.
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    Broadbill 185k YMS-43 alongside Broadbill (AM 58). Tom Turk
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