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YMS-468

Call sign:
Nan - Queen - Yankee - Zebra

ex-PCS-1436

YMS-468 served the Navies of the United States and Turkey

YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper:

Laid down 12 June 1943 as Patrol Craft Sweeper, PCS-1436 by Gibbs Gas Engine Co., Jacksonville, FL

Reclassified as an Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper, YMS-468, 27 September 1943

Launched 23 March 1944

Commissioned 31 August 1944

Struck from the Naval list 19 February 1948

Transferred to Turkey 10 May 1948 and named TCG Kusadashi (M 514)

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
USS YMS-468
	145k	c. September 1945 Sasebo, Japan Moored to a buoy with two unidentified YMS'	Joe Radigan
	128k	Moored outboard of YMS-220, YMS-419, YMS-442, and Sprig (AM 384) From the collection of Joseph Richard who served in 1945 in Sprig	Joe Richard, Jr.
TGC Kusadashi (M 514)
	193k		Cüneyt Demir
	36k		Cüneyt Demir

Commanding Officers
01	LTJG Ed Leach, USNR	August 1944
02	LTJG Alfred B. Wiles, USNR	1945

Courtesy Joe Radigan and Wolfgang Hechler

There is no DANFS History currently available for YMS-468

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