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YMS-436

Call sign:
Nan - Charlie - Able - Charlie

La Obra call sign (1948):
King - Queen - Item - Fox

YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper:

Laid down 15 June 1944 by the J. M. Martinac Shipbuilding Corp., Tacoma, WA

Launched 14 March 1945

Completed and commissioned USS YMS-436, 31 May 1945 under the command of LT J. W. Nelson, USNR

Decommissioned 1 January 1947

Struck from the Naval Register 5 March 1947

Transferred to the War Shipping Administration 13 May 1947

Registered in 1948 to Velero II, Inc. of Los Angeles, CA as the miscellaneous use vessel La Obra out of Los Angeles

Registered in 1949 to Independent Tankships, Inc. of Washington, DC as the miscellaneous use vessel Badawy out of Wilmington, DE

Operated in 1952 under the Saudi Arabian flag

Fate unknown.

Specifications:

Displacement 270 t.

1948 - 250 t.

Length 136'

1948 - 126.5'

Beam 24' 6"

Draft 8'

1948 - 11.5'

Speed 15 kts.

Complement 32

1948 - Six

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
	121k			David Wright
	200k	c. 1945 Yokkaichi, Japan Ships officers at Thanksgiving Dinner Rear of photo is inscribed "L. M. Riechman"		David Wright

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