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YMS-56

YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper:

  • Laid down 30 May 1941 by the Gibbs Gas Engine Co., Jacksonville, FL
  • Launched 6 December 1941
  • Completed 18 March 1942
  • Assigned to the Caribbean Sea Frontier
  • Picked up eight survivors 16 December 1943 from the U.S. tanker McDowell torpeoded by the German submarine U-516 en route from New York to Aruba, Netherlands West Indies
  • Struck from the Naval Register 17 April 1946
  • Transferred to the War Shipping Administration in February 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.
    Click on thumbnail
    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    YMS-56 280k Artist's rendition of YMS-56 and YMS-90
    Cover of the October 1942 edition of Motor Boating magazine    		 Tom Nye
    Commanding Officers
    01LT Nelson W. Millard, USNR1944
    Courtesy Joe Radigan
    There is no DANFS history available for YMS-56
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