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YDG-7



Call sign:
Nan - Jig - Yoke - Victor

ex-YMS-480
ex-PCS-1462

YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper:

  • Laid down 25 May 1943 as Patrol Craft Sweeper, PCS-1462 by the Bellingham Marine Railway and Boatbuilding Co., Bellingham, WA
  • Reclassified as an Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper, YMS-480, 27 September 1943
  • Launched 20 November 1943
  • Reclassified as a District Degaussing Vessel, YDG-7, 23 December 1943
  • Completed 15 March 1944
  • Struck from the Navy Register 12 April 1946
  • Transferred to the War Shipping Administration 27 August 1947 and sold
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 270 t.
  • Length 136'
  • Beam 24' 6"
  • Draft 8'
  • Speed 15 kts.
  • Complement 32
  • Armament: Two 20mm mounts
  • Propulsion: Two 1,800shp 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
    YMS-480 107k YDG-7 photographed by her builder on 21 March 1944
    National Archives photo 19-N-62838 from Shipscribe.com    		 Robert Hurst
    YMS-480 88k YDG-7 photographed by her builder on 21 March 1944
    National Archives photo 19-N-62834    		 Mike Green
    Commanding Officers
    01LCDR William A. Saleebey, USNR15 March 1944 - May 1945
    02LT Herbert E. Bergquist, USNRMay 1945 - December 1945
    01LTJG Peter Popovich, USNRDecember 1945 - 26 March 1946
    Courtesy Joe Radigan and Wilfgang Hechler
    There is no DANFS history available for YDG-7
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