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YMS-396

Call sign:
Nan - George - Roger - Peter

YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper:

Laid down 18 July 1942 by the Harbor Boat Building Co., Terminal Island, CA

Launched 9 August 1943

Completed 11 January 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.

Click on thumbnail for full size image	Size	Image Description		Source
	216k	Alongside an attack transport, circa 1944 Collection of Rear Admiral Bradford Bartlett, 1981 Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 92701		Mike Green
	161k	Alongside USS Russell [DD 414] making preparations to escort an Okinawa re-supply convoy out of Ulithi anchorage on 11/12 April 1945. YMS-396 was Flag of CoMineRon 104, covering local Palau and Ulithi escort work for nearly a year Photo by Ltjg Ed Klump, USS Russell		John Chiquoine

Commanding Officers
01	LT J. B. Mohney, USNR	1945

Courtesy Joe Radigan

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