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YMS-393



Call sign:
Nan - George - Mike - Queen
YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper:

  • Laid down 27 June 1942 by the Harbor Boat Building Co., Terminal Island, CA
  • Launched 29 May 1943
  • Completed 14 September 1943
  • Commissioned in October 1943
  • Participated in the following invasions:
    Biak, New Guinea - 27 May 1944
    Moratai, Netherlands East Indies - 15 September 1944, and
    Leyte, Philippines - 25 October 1944
  • Struck from the Naval Register 10 June 1947
  • Transferred to the State Department, Foreign Liquidation Commission 21 October 1947 and sold
  • 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.
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    YMS-393 162k . Robert Cox
    YMS-393 92k c. June 1945
    Mariveles Harbor, Luzon, Philippines
    The ship was undertaking hydrographic surveys, sweeping anchorages, fixing navigational beacons, along with charting and buoying wrecks of ports and harbors in the northern Philippines
    Australian War Memorial, by Betty, John Lt. RANVR, Photo No. P02305.049     		Mike Green
    There is no DANFS History currently available for YMS-393
    Oral History of the YMS-393
    by Roger C. "Smitty" Smith
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