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YMS-406

Call sign:
Nan - Peter - Item - Jig

YMS-406 served the Navies of the United States and Norway.

YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper:Laid down 28 January 1943 by Henry C. Grebe and Co., Inc., Chicago, IL

Launched 6 September 1943

Completed 20 November 1943 and commissioned USS YMS-406

Transferred to Norway 18 May 1945 and reclassified and commissioned HNoMS NYMS-406

Named and reclassified HNoMS Rana (M 330) in 1948

Returned to U.S. custody 7 June 1948 (on paper only); 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 Naval Register in August 1962

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-406
	231k	19 November 1943 Builder's photo taken a day before the ship's official completion Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 43511	Mike Green
USS YMS-406
	149k	YMS-305, YMS-406 and YMS-380 in a French port sometime after D-Day	George Meier

There is no DANFS History currently available for YMS-406

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Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen

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