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YMS-183

Call sign:
Nan - Yoke - Yoke - Oboe

YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper:

Laid down, 28 March 1942 by the Greenport Basin and Construction Co., Greenport, NY

Launched, 25 June 1942

Completed, 14 January 1943

Struck from the Naval Register 10 June 1947

Transferred to the War Shipping Administration in February 1948, sold, converted into a tackle and bait shop named Hanson's Landing at Coos Bay, OR

Scrapped and burned in 1970.

Specifications:

Displacement 270 t.

Length 136'

Beam 24' 6"

Draft 8'

Speed 13 kts

Complement 50

Armament: One 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, two 20mm mounts and two depth charge tracks

Propulsion: Two 800bhp 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-183
	134k	Conducting sea trials	Victor Barnaby
USS YMS-183
	143k	Kerama Retto, Okinawa anchorage. Alongside Monadnock (CM 9) between 26 April and 3 May 1945 Photo from USS Isherwood [DD 520]* damage photos in National Archives group 19GC-c-dd520*	Dave Schroeder and John Chiquoine Photo added 17 September 2019
	69k	YMS-271, YMS-94, and YMS-183 alongside an unidentified tender	Jim Matley

Commanding Officers
01	LT S. C. Klein, USNR	1945

Courtesy Joe Radigan

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