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YMS-247

Call sign:
Nan - Dog - Baker - Oboe

YMS-247 served the Navies of the United States and Norway.

YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper:

Laid down 27 May 1942 by the Weaver Shipyard, Orange, TX

Launched 14 October 1942

Completed 13 May 1943 and commissioned USS YMS-247

Transferred to Norway and reclassified NYMS-247, 18 May 1945

Named Vinstra (M 317)

Struck from the Naval Register 12 August 1946

Transferred to the State Department, Foreign Liquidation Commission in June 1948

Struck from the Norwegian Navy list in 1959

Transferred to West Germany and renamed H. C. (Hans Christian) Oersted (Y 877)

Sold 9 June 1988 to an enterprise by the name of "Masterkraft."

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
Vinstra (M 317)
	86k	c. 1956 Royal Norwegian Navy photo from the 1956/1957 edition of Jane's Fighting Ships	Robert Hurst
H. C. Oersted (Y 877)
	123k	c. 1967 Photo by Stefan Terzibaschitsch from the 1967/1968 edition of Jane's Fighting Ships	Robert Hurst

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