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YMS-449
Call sign:
Nan - Charlie - Uncle - Peter
ex-PCS-1398
YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper:
Laid down 5 June 1943 as
PCS-1398
by the South Coast Co., Newport Beach, CA
Reclassified as an
Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper,
YMS-449
, 27 September 1943
Launched 29 February 1944
Completed and commissioned
USS YMS-449
, 7 July 1944
Struck from the Naval Register 19 July 1946
Transferred to the War Shipping Administration 6 February 1947 and sold
Fate unknown.
Specifications:
Displacement 270 t.
Length 136'
Beam 24' 6"
Draft 8'
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.
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Image Description
Source
54k
15 July 1944
U.S. Navy photo
Hyperwar
U.S. Navy in World War II
155k
San Francisco Bay, circa 1945
Courtesy of Donald McPherson, 1976
Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 84990
Mike Green
There is no
DANFS
history available for
YMS-449
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