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YMS-83

Call sign:
Nan - Uncle - Jig - How

YMS-83 served the Navies of the United States, France and South Vietnam.

YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper:

Laid down 24 October 1941 at the Stadium Yacht Basin, Cleveland, OH

Launched 27 June 1942

Completed 30 August 1942

Commissioned USS YMS-83

Transferred to France 20 October 1944 and named Digitale (D 326)

Sold to France 21 March 1949

Struck from the Naval Register 28 April 1949

Reclassified D-15 and M-655

Sold to Vietnam 11 February 1954 and renamed RVNS Chuong Duong (HQ 112)

Scrapped in 1964.

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-83
	35k		Historical Collections of the Great Lakes
USS YMS-83
	115k		Tom Turk
Digitale (M-655)
	104k	11 February 1954 Haiphong, Vietnam Inboard of Belladone (M 658), ex-YMS-78 preparing to lower her colors before turnover to South Vietnamese Navy Photo by Yves Chaput	Georges Demichelis
RVNS Chuong Duong (HQ 112)
	86k	11 February 1954 Haiphong, Vietnam Raising the South Vietnamese flag after turnover from France Photo by Yves Chaput	Georges Demichelis

There is no DANFS history available for YMS-83.

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