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YMS-330

Call sign:
Nan - Queen - Dog - Yoke

YMS-330 served the Navies of the United States and South Korea.

YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper:

Laid down 8 December 1942 by the Ballard Marine Railway Co., Inc., Seattle, WA

Launched 27 March 1943

Completed 6 August 1943

Commissioned USS YMS-330

Transferred to the State Department, Foreign Liquidation Commission in April 1947; sold to South Korea and named Ganggyeong (YMS 510)

Struck from the Naval Register 19 June 1946

Fate unknown.

Specifications:

Displacement 270 t.

Length 136'

Beam 24' 6"

Draft 8'

Speed 13 kts

Complement 50

Armament: One 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount (Replaced by one 40mm mount) and two 20mm mounts

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-330
	116k	27 March 1943 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." YMS-328 at the wharf on the left	Tommy Trampp
USS YMS-330
	175k		Deborah Abernathy
	75k
	114k
	174k	Moored between Curlew (AMS 8) and Ganggye (YMS-506), ex-USS YMS-392	David Wright Photo added 28 January 2022

Commanding Officers
01	LT J. B. Thompson, Jr., USNR	1945

Courtesy Joe Radigan

There is no DANFS History currently available for YMS-330

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