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YMS-398



Call sign:
Nan - George - Victor - Baker
YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper:

  • Laid down 16 June 1942 by Henry B. Nevins, Inc., City Island, NY
  • Launched 4 January 1943
  • Completed 13 March 1943
  • Struck from the Naval Register 10 June 1947
  • Transferred to the State Department, Foreign Liquidation Commission 1 December 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
    YMS-398 115k Photo of stack art taken from YMS-370 Clay Kohl
    YMS-398 142k Courtesy of Ted Stone
    Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 93219    		 Mike Green
    YMS-398 179k 27 May 1946
    Subic Bay, Philippines
    Followed by YMS-329
    Photo by Leonor Art Studios, Olongapo, Subic Bay, Philippines
    Photo from the collection of Albert F. Lipp    		 Thomas Lipp
    Photo added 19 March 2020

    Photos from the collection of Albert F. Lipp, Crewmember USS YMS-398

    Contributed by Thomas Lipp
    Photos added 19 March 2020

    (If you know the identity of any of these crew members, please send an email with their names)

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    1. U.S. Naval Training Center, Sampson, NY
    28 July 1944
    Recruit Company No. 532

    2. Diesel Engineering School, Gulfport, MS

    1. Olongapo Dock, Subic Bay, Philippines
    28 May 1946
    The Jolly "Five" Civilians

    4. Officers and men of USS YMS-398
    Olongapo Dock, Subic Bay, Philippines
    28 May 1946

    4. Officers and crew of USS YMS-398
    Olongapo Dock, Subic Bay, Philippines
    28 May 1946
    Commanding Officers
    01LT W. A. Latta, USNR1945
    Courtesy Joe Radigan
    There is no DANFS History currently available for YMS-398
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