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YMS-414

Call sign:
Nan - Peter - Sugar - Able

YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper:

Laid down 20 September 1943 by the Stadium Yacht Basin Inc., Cleveland, OH

Launched 11 March 1944

Completed 6 September 1944

Commissioned USS YMS-414, 7 September 1944

Decommissioned 1 December 1946

Struck from the Naval Register 25 May 1947

Transferred to the War Shipping Administration 14 November 1947

Acquired in 1963 by R. G. Vest of Seattle, WA for use as a freight barge and named Charley B.

Acquired in 1970 by Tom McDonald of Seattle

Out of documentation in 1984

Fate unknown.

Specifications:

Displacement 270 t.

Length 136'

Beam 24' 6"

Draft 8'

Speed 13 kts.

Complement 50

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-414
	243k	Fitting out at the Stadium Yacht Basin, Cleveland, Ohio, 10 July 1944 National Archives photo 19-N-67887 and 19-N-67888 Top photo added 5 September 2019	Mike Green
	190k		Mike Green
USS YMS-414
	234k	San Francisco Bay, 1945-1946 Courtesy of D.M. McPherson, 1974 Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 79711	Mike Green

Commanding Officers
01	LT Joseph C. Bedsole, USNR	7 September 1944 - July 1945
02	LTJG Albert Jack Bartlett, USN	July 1945 - April 1946

Courtesy of Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves

There is no DANFS History currently available for YMS-414

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