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YMS-328

Call sign:
Nan - Queen - Dog - Jig

YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper:

Laid down 6 July 1942 by the Ballard Marine Railway Co., Seattle, WA

Launched 19 December 1942

Completed and commissioned USS YMS-328, 26 May 1943 under the command of LT John S. NePage, USNR

Decommissioned 29 October 1946

Struck from the Naval Register 29 October 1946

Transferred to the War Shipping Administration 26 January 1948 and sold to Hal Jones of Seattle, WA

Acquired in 1958 by Beverly L. McCarvill of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada for use as a yacht and named La Beverie

Acquired in 1962 by Goose Bay Ventures, Ltd. of Vancouver and renamed Wild Goose II

Acquired in 1963 by Batjac Productions (John Wayne) of Hollywood, CA and renamed Wild Goose

Upon John Wayne's death in 1979 the Wild Goose was sold to Lynn Hutchins of Los Angeles, CA

Acquired by Hornblower Yachts, Inc. of Marina del Rey, CA for use as a yacht

As of 2003 is still in operation as a cruise yacht.

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
YMS-328
	116k	27 March 1943 YMS-328 at the wharf on the left while launching YMS-330 Photo Caption: "The Ballard Marine Railway Company, Inc. sent another minesweeper, the YMS-330, down the ways yesterday afternoon and towed the vessel to an outfitting wharf, where sister ships have been made ready to take part in the war effort."	Tommy Trampp
USS YMS-328
	233k		David Buell
	115k	San Francisco Bay circa 1945 Courtesy of Donald McPherson, 1976 Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 84982	Mike Green
Wild Goose
	38k
	87k	Photo from "Minesweeper: The Role of the Motor Minesweeper in World War II" by Michael J. Melvin, BEM	Robert Hurst

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