Auxiliary motor minesweepers were small wood-hulled minesweepers commissioned by the United States Navy for service during World War II. The vessels were...

The YMS-1 class of auxiliary motor minesweepers was established with the laying down of YMS-1 on 4 March 1941. Some were later transferred to the United...

navies have used such ships. Motor minesweepers include: Auxiliary motor minesweepers (YMS), small wood-hulled minesweepers commissioned by the United States...

received the designation "EK"; minesweepers and auxiliary motor minesweepers were redesignated tralshik ("minesweeper") and received the designation "T";...

Auxiliary motor minesweepers in 1942 and 1943. Auxiliary motor minesweepers had a wood-hull. the ships were numbered and unnamed. The auxiliary motor...

Initially classified as auxiliary motor minesweepers (AMS), on 7 February 1955, they were reclassified as coastal minesweepers (minesweeper, coastal) (MSC)....

minesweepers keep waterways clear for safe shipping. The earliest known usage of the naval mine dates to the Ming dynasty. Dedicated minesweepers, however...

YMS-1-class minesweeper (270t, wooden hull) In early 1915, the British Admiralty selected the US Electric Launch Company (Elco) for the production of 50 motor launches...

Oracle, Motive, Heed Units 5 & 6 and Mobile Hydrographic Unit 5 auxiliary motor minesweepers 2 landing craft, control 6 landing craft, vehicle Rear Adm. William...

gun, along with 40 mm guns, and depth charges. The YMS-1-class auxiliary motor minesweepers were 270 ton, 136-foot (41 m) vessels. With a crew of 32, they...

Patrol craft, fast, (swift boat) PCS: Patrol craft, sweeper (modified-motor minesweepers meant for anti-submarine warfare) PF: Frigate, in a role similar to...

composed of the minesweepers USS Augury (AM-149), USS Agile (AMc-111), and USS Affray (AMc-112), and the auxiliary motor minesweeper USS YMS-285, which...

variant MMS-class minesweeper (403 ships, launched 1940–1945) inshore acoustic / magnetic motor minesweepers Algerine-class minesweeper (98 ships, launched...

Harbor Boat Building Company built Adjutant-class minesweepers, an auxiliary motor minesweepers for the United States Navy and other counties in the...

and most successful classes of minesweepers ordered by the United States Navy during World War II. Typically, minesweepers detected and removed naval mines...

Michael J (1992). Minesweeper: The Role of the Motor Minesweepers in World War II. ISBN 1-872017-57-6. "Bangor class Minesweepers". uboat.net. Retrieved...

night attacks. Thirty-two LCIs were converted to ACMU-7 class coastal minesweepers. One LCI(L), LCI-346, was used as a press boat (PGY) during the Battle...

USS Seer (AM-112) USS Sentinel (AM-113) 7 PCs 26 SCs 6 YMS - auxiliary motor minesweepers 86.4 Joss Assault Force, Major General Truscott, USA U. S. Army...

Scrimmage, Sentry 2 minelayers: Preble, Breese 26 auxiliary motor minesweepers 1 harbour defence motor launch: 1074 Lt. Commander C.C. Morgan, USNR 11 fast...

(Ham class). RNXS vessel names were prefixed 'XSV' for Auxiliary Service Vessel. The minesweepers were de-armed and converted to enable larger training...

private ownership. However, PLAN has to keep a very large number of auxiliary minesweepers to prepare for war, and as a result, when naval trawlers had retired...

LCI(L)-675 LCI(L)-943 LCI(L)-945 LCI(L)-946 LCI(L)-949 LCI(L)-950 Auxiliary motor minesweepers (YMS) YMS-33 YMS-38 YMS-42 YMS-59 YMS-75 YMS-85 YMS-88 YMS-100...

attack craft, minesweepers, submarines, patrol vessels, landing craft and other small ships. Fast combat support ships are a type of auxiliary ships designed...

Craft YM: Dredge YMN: Dredge (non-self propelled) YMS: Motor Minesweeper, Auxiliary YMT: Motor tug YN: Net tender YND: Net tender, district YNG: Gate...

A depot ship is an auxiliary ship used as a mobile or fixed base for submarines, destroyers, minesweepers, fast attack craft, landing craft, or other small...

minesweeper was a designation given by the United States Navy to a series of destroyers that were converted into high-speed ocean-going minesweepers for...

engaging in long distance and high value trade. In more modern times, auxiliary cruisers were used offensively as merchant raiders to disrupt trade chiefly...

An auxiliary ship is a naval ship designed to support combatant ships and other naval operations. Auxiliary ships are not primary combatant vessels, though...

service in the Pacific war zone where one, Rockford, teamed with the minesweeper Ardent to sink the Japanese submarine I-12 in November 1944, but the...

A motor torpedo boat is a fast torpedo boat, especially of the mid 20th century. The motor in the designation originally referred to their use of petrol...