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7)YMS 45 AUX MINESWEEPER
Photo. www.navsource.org By Eric R. Johns
YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper:
Laid down 20 June 1941 by the Wheeler Shipbuilding Corp., Brooklyn, NY
Launched, 20 April 1942
Completed, 5 June 1942
Commissioned USS YMS-45, (date unknown); Named Barbet and reclassified as a Motor Minesweeper, AMS-41, 1 September 1947
Reclassified as a Coastal Minesweeper (Old), MSC(O)-41, 7 February 1955.
Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown). Fate unknown.
Specifications:
Displacement 320 t.
Length 136'
Beam 24' 6"
Draft 6' 1"
Speed 13 kts.
Complement 33.
Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, two 20mm, two dct, two dcp
Propulsion two General Motors diesel engines, two shafts.
