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YMS-405

Call sign:
Nan - Peter - Fox - Zebra

YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper:

Laid down 25 January 1943 by Henry C. Grebe and Co., Chicago, IL

Launched 24 August 1943

Completed 8 November 1943

Commissioned USS YMS-405, 23 November 1943 under the command of LTJG Otto F. Wormsbacher, USNR

Decommissioned 1 December 1946

Struck from the Naval Register 25 February 1947

Transferred to the War Shipping Administration in February 1948

Acquired in March 1948 by Gulf Coast Seafoods, Inc. of Houston, TX for use as a fishing boat and named Ruby W

Registered in 1949 to the Pure Oil Co. of Port Arthur, TX as the miscellaneous vessel Leo Huff II out of Port Arthur

Acquired in 1966 by Standard Products, Inc. of Kilmarnock, VA and renamed Silver Beach out of Reedville, VA

Out of documentation in 1986

Fate unknown.

Specifications:

Displacement 270 t.

1949 - 258 t.

Length 136'

1949 - 126'

Beam 24' 6"

1949 - 25'

Draft 8'

11949 - 11.3'

Speed 15 kts.

Complement 32

1949 - Four

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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