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YMS-220



Call sign:
Nan - Charlie - Jig - Able


YMS-220 served the Navies of the United States and South Korea
YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper:

  • Laid down 25 November 1942 by the J. M. Martinac Shipbuilding Co., Tacoma, WA
  • Launched 6 March 1943
  • Completed 30 August 1943
  • Struck from the Naval Register 19 June 1946
  • Transferred to the State Department, Foreign Liquidation Commission in April 1947
  • Transferred to South Korea 6 August 1947
  • Commissioned ROKS Gapyeong (YMS 509), 11 November 1947
  • Struck a mine in September 1950 and sank.

    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
    Sprig 128k Nested along with Sprig (AM 384), YMS-442, YMS-419, YMS-220 and YMS-468
    From the collection of Joseph Richard who served in 1945 in Sprig    		 Joe Richard, Jr.
    YMS-220 174k Looking forward
    From the collection of Motor Machinist Mate William Thompson, YMS-220 crew member    		 Bill Thompson
    YMS-220 201k Ships logo on her stack. It appears to be Superman cutting a mine's mooring chain
    From the collection of Motor Machinist Mate William Thompson, YMS-220 crew member
    YMS-220 168k From the collection of Motor Machinist Mate William Thompson, YMS-220 crew member

    Photos from the collection of Motor Machinist Mate William Thompson, YMS-220 crew member

    Contributed by Bill Thompson

    (If you know the identity of any of these crew members, please send an email with their names)

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    1.

    2. Doc Ford and Tiger

    3. Donald Mackie Schiffer holding "Butch"

    4. Red Grahane, Dutch Holland and Sparks

    5. Top row left to right: Kramer, Mich.; [B]oyd Francis Bloomington, Spokane; Ralph Robert Howe, Iowa; Donald V. Johnson, Iron Mountain, Mich.; James William Bassett, Detroit. Mich.; Raymond Edgar Barber, Minneapolis, Minn.; John Thomas Thore and Thomas James Horgan, Boston, Mass.
    Center: (Wearing sunglasses) James E. Yenko, Pueblo, Colo.
    Bottom row: Joel M. Hjermstad, Minneapolis, Minn.; Arthur E. Wolfe, Los Angeles, Calif.; "Dutch" Holland, Elmhurst, Ill.; John E. Gardner, West Va. and Dale B. Saxton, Utah

    6. Top right: "Skinny" William Thompson
    Key West, FL

    7. Sam Jamiesen

    8. Japanese Officers signing surrender papers, Korea

    9. Jim Bassett and unknown opponent

    10.

    11. William Thompson and ships mascot

    12. Chief McCann, Chief Shannon and unknown

    13. Donald Schiffer
    There is no DANFS History currently available for YMS-220
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