Photo. www.navsource.org By Robert Hurst
YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper:
Laid down, 19 September 1941 by the Gibbs Gas Engine Co., Jacksonville, FL
Launched, 19 January 1942
Completed, 2 May 1942
Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, 10 June 1947. 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.