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YMS-117



Call sign:
Nan - Able - Uncle - Uncle
YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper:

  • Laid down 8 May 1941 by the Harbor Boat Building Co., Terminal Island, CA
  • Launched 23 August 1941
  • Completed 11 April 1942
  • Transferred to the War Shipping Administration 8 May 1947 and sold
  • Struck from the Naval Register 10 June 1947
  • 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.
    Click on thumbnail
    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    YMS-117 117k c. 1941
    Acme News photo    		 Tommy Trampp
    YMS-117 89k Photo from the October 1942 edition of Motor Boating magazine David Wright
    Commanding Officers
    01LTJG A. R. Fowler, USNR1945
    Courtesy Joseph M. Radigan (of blessed memory)
    There is no DANFS history available for YMS-117
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    Naval Minewarfare Association
    Association of Minemen
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