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YMS-333

Call sign:
Nan - Queen - George - Sugar

YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper:

Laid down 11 June 1943 by the Ballard Marine Railway Co., Inc, Seattle, WA

Launched 4 August 1943

Completed and commissioned USS YMS-333, 2 December 1943 under the command of LT J. C. Engle, USNR

Decommissioned in April 1946

Struck from the Navy Register 29 October 1946

Transferred to the War Shipping Administration 24 January 1947 and sold

Acquired in 1953 by Adalbert W. Haas of Seattle, WA and named Milotchka II

Out of documentation in 1986

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
YMS-333
	174k	4 September 1943 Ship's sponsor, Miss Betty Axtell, with party, at the launch ceremonies, Ballard Marine Railway Co., Seattle, WA Photo by Ray Krantz of Seattle U.S. Navy photo NH 88411	Naval History and Heritage Command Photo added 8 February 2021
USS YMS-333
	306k	c. 1945	Edward Gaffney
	142k	c. 1945 Attu, Alaska	Edward Gaffney
	197k	c. 1945 San Francisco Bay, CA Courtesy of D. M. McPherson, 1974 Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 79695	Mike Green

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