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YMS-270

Call sign:
Nan - Fox - Roger - Uncle

YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper:

Laid down 11 May 1942 by the Bellingham Marine Railway and Boat Building Co., Bellingham, WA

Launched 7 September 1942

Completed, commissioned USS YMS-270, 25 March 1943 and assigned to the Pacific Fleet

Participated in the invasion of Guam in July 1944

Decommissioned 1 May 1946

Transferred to the War Shipping Administration in March 1947

Struck from the Naval Register 10 June 1947

Registered in 1949 to Raymond Lendten of Wauna, OR as the tugboat Pauline out of Astoria, OR

Registered in 1954 to Beaufort Fisheries, Inc. of Beaufort, NC as the fishing boat Pauline out of Beaufort

Out of documentation in 1984

Fate unknown.

Specifications:

Displacement 270 t.

1949 - 252 t.

1954 - 249 t.

Length 136'

1949 - 126.3'

Beam 24' 6"

1949 - 25'

Draft 8'

1949 - 11.3'

Speed 15 kts.

Complement 32

1949 - Six

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
	137k	c. 1945 San Francisco Bay, CA Courtesy of Donald McPherson, 1976 Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 84974		Mike Green

Commanding Officers
01	LT Douglas W. Marden, USNR	26 March 1943
02	LTJG I. E. Campbell, USNR	1945

Courtesy Joe Radigan

There is no DANFS History currently available for YMS-270

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