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YMS-274

Call sign:
Nan - Fox - William - Yoke

YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper:

Laid down 7 September 1942 by the Bellingham Marine Railway and Boat Building Co., Bellingham, WA

Launched 9 January 1943

Completed and commissioned 29 July 1943 under the command of LTJG Ernest T. Chadwell, Jr., USNR

Decommissioned 1 February 1947

Struck from the Naval Register 10 June 1947, transferred to the War Shipping Administration and sold to the Plaxco and Plaxco Corp. of Southport, NC, converted to a menhaden fisherman and

named Plaxco

Sold in 1954 to the Brunswick Navigation Co. of Southport and renamed Cazart

Sold in 1967 to the Standard Products Co. of Kilmarnock, VA

Abandoned in 1978Fate 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
	173k	c. 1945/1946 San Francisco Bay, CA Courtesy of Donald McPherson, 1976 Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 81014		Mike Green

There is no DANFS History currently available for YMS-274

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen

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