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YMS-445

Call sign:
Nan - Charlie - Queen - Xray

La Busca call sign:
King - Queen - Item - King

YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper:

Laid down 25 March 1944 by Hiltebrant Dry Dock, Kingston, NY

Launched 28 September 1944

Completed 20 March 1945

Commissioned USS YMS-445, 21 March 1945 under the command of LTJG John E. Boyd, 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 Macco Corp. of Clearwater, CA as the miscellaneous vessel La Busca out of Los Angeles, CA

Registered in 1955 to the Smith-Rice Barge No. 3 Co. of Long Beach, CA as the miscellaneous vessel La Busca out of Los Angeles

Registered in 1956 to the Submarex Corp. of Santa Barbara, CA as the miscellaneous vessel La Busca out of Los Angeles

Sold in 1961 and operated under the Panamanian 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 - Eight

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.

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