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YMS-130



Call sign:
Nan - Baker - Peter - Peter
YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper:

  • Laid down 20 June 1941 by the Tacoma Boat Building Co., Tacoma, WA
  • Launched 18 December 1941
  • Completed 27 August 1942
  • Commissioned USS YMS-130, 31 August 1942 under the command of LT Robert P. Hosford, USNR
  • Struck from the Naval Register 17 April 1946
  • Transferred to the War Shipping Administration in November 1946
  • Registered in 1949 to Hans Peterson of Pelican, AK as the freight barge Einstoss No. 14 out of Sitka, AK
  • Renamed Chum
  • Abandoned in 1950
  • Registered in 1952 to John Bremmer of Yakutat, AK as the freight barge Chum out of Juneau, AK
  • Abandoned in 1960.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 270 t.
    1949 - 254 t.
  • Length 136'
    1949 - 126.3'
  • Beam 24' 6"
    1949 - 25'
  • Draft 8'
    1949 - 11.3'
  • Speed 15 kts.
  • Complement 32
    1949 - None
  • 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
    111912500    		 NR Plenty of Rain and Ritual At Minesweeper Launchings
    Festive Spirit Is Undampened as Four Naval Vessels Are Christened.
    Traditional launching rites were conducted in the grand manner as (YMS-133), (YMS-125),(YMS-129) & (YMS-130) were given to the waters of Puget Sound at half hour intervals.    		 Image and text provided by Washington State Library; Olympia, WA.
    Photo from the The Tacoma Times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 20 December 1941, Image 9, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
    YMS-130/135 59k c. 1943 - 45
    Dutch Harbor, Unalaska, Aleutian Islands, AK
    Phoebe (AMc 57) pierside, YMS-135 center and YMS-130 outboard    		 Contributed by Cyrus Dodd III, in honor of his father,
    Cyrus C. Dodd Jr., former crew member of Phoebe
    There is no DANFS history available for YMS-130
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