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YMS-438

Call sign:
Nan - Charlie - Dog - Queen

Lynn Ann call sign (1948):
William - Jig - Jig - Able

YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper:

Laid down 1 November 1943 by Robert Jacobs, Inc., City Island, NY

Launched 7 July 1944

Completed 25 October 1944

Commissioned USS YMS-438, 26 October 1944 under the command of LTJG Philip C. Martin, USNR

Decommissioned 1 January 1947

Struck from the Naval Register 5 March 1947

Transferred to the War Shipping Administration 27 May 1947

Registered in 1948 to Merton P. Soma of Mount Vernon, WA as the fishing boat Lynn Ann out of Seattle, WA

Registered in 1949 to Trawler Lynn-Ann, Inc. of Anacortes, WA as the fishing boat Lynn Ann out of Bellingham, WA

Acquired in 1954 by Beaufort By-Products of Beaufort, NC

Registered in 1956 by the Carteret Menhaden Co., Inc. of Beaufort as the fishing boat Lynn Ann out of Beaufort

Out of documentation in 1978

Fate unknown.

Specifications:

Displacement 270 t.

1948 - 260 t.

Length 136'

1948 - 127.1'

Beam 24' 6"

Draft 8'

1948 - 11.8'

Speed 15 kts.

Complement 32

1948 - 12

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
	106k	c. 1945 San Francisco Bay Passing under the Golden Gate bridge		Robert Hurst

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