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YMS-377

Call sign:
Nan - Dog - Item - Queen

YMS-377 served the Navies of the United States and Norway.

YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper:

Laid down 3 February 1943 by Greenport Basin and Construction Co., Greenport, NY

Launched 3 April 1943

Completed 23 August 1943

Damaged by a mine off Normandy 17 June 1944

Transferred to Norway 18 May 1945 and reclassified NYMS-377

Named Driva (M 319)

Returned to U.S. custody 7 June 1948; transferred to the State Department, Foreign Liquidation Commission and sold to Norway the same day

Struck from the Naval Register 12 August 1948

Struck from the Norwegian Navy list in 1961

Fate unknown.

Specifications:

Displacement 270 t.

Length 136'

Beam 22' 9"

Draft 6' 3"

Speed 14.5 kts.

Complement 50

Armament: One 3"/50 dual purpose mount and two 20mm mounts

Propulsion: Two 900bhp 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
USS YMS-377
	55k	In drydock at Plymouth, England	Joseph Kish via Linda Kish Bowen
	43k	Plymouth, England
	33k	Ships logo and scoreboard on starboard side of stack
	27k	Minewarfare logo on port side of stack
NYMS-377 Class Minesweepers
	56k	Three unidentified Norwegian NYMS-377 Class minesweepers

There is no DANFS history currently available for YMS-377

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