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YMS-48



Call sign:
Nan - Easy - Jig - How

Sunk 14 February 1945
YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper:

  • Laid down 27 June 1941 by Wheeler Ship Building Corp., Brooklyn, NY
  • Launched 15 May 1942
  • Completed 14 July 1942
  • Sunk 14 February 1945 by USS Fletcher (DD 445) after being damaged by coastal defense guns at Corregidor, Philippines
  • Struck from the Navy list 23 February 1945.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 320 t.
  • Length 136'
  • Beam 24' 6"
  • Draft 6' 1"
  • Speed 13 kts.
  • Complement 33
  • Armament: One 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, two 20mm mounts, two depth charge tracks 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-48 101k 7 July 1942 Joe Radigan
    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
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