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YMS-416

Call sign:
Nan - Peter - Tare - Dog

YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper:

Laid down 9 January 1944 by the Stadium Yacht Basin, Inc., Cleveland, OH

Launched 28 May 1944

Completed 21 October 1944

Commissioned USS YMS-416, 23 October 1944 under the command of LTJG George T. Lyons, USNR

Decommissioned 1 December 1946

Struck from the Navy Register 7 February 1947

Transferred to the War Shipping Administration 6 December 1947

Registered in 1949 to Harold Healy of Seattle, WA as the miscellaneous use barge Healys No. 1 out of Seattle

Registered in 1955 to Executive Factors, Ltd. of Seattle as the freight barge Healys No. 1 out of Seattle

Out of documentation in 1989

Fate unknown.

Specifications:

Displacement 270 t.

1949 - 261 t.

Length 136'

1949 - 126.4'

Beam 24' 6"

Draft 8'

1949 - 11.3'

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
	157k	Fitting out at the Stadium Yacht Basin, Cleveland, Ohio, 10 July 1944 National Archives photos 19-N-67891 and 19-N-67892		Mike Green
	226k			Mike Green

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