USS YMS-107
A YMS-1-class minesweeper | |
History | |
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United States | |
Name | YMS-107 |
Builder | Burger Boat Co. (Manitowoc, Wisconsin, U.S.A.) |
Laid down | 13 May 1941 |
Launched | 28 March 1942 |
Commissioned | 3 Aug 1942 |
Decommissioned | 1945 |
Stricken | 20 March 1946 |
Fate | Transferred to the War Assets Administration in March 1948 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | YMS-1-class minesweeper |
Displacement | 320 tons |
Length | 136 ft (41 m) |
Beam | 24 ft 6 in (7.47 m) |
Draft | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) |
Propulsion | 2 × 880 bhp (660 kW) General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear, two shafts. |
Speed | 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
Complement | 33 officers and men |
Armament |
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Aircraft carried | none |
YMS-107 was a wooden hulled yard minesweeper of the United States Navy built by the Burger Boat Co. in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. Her construction was completed on 3 August 1942, and she was commissioned the same day.[1]
In September 1945, there was a collision between YMS-107 and the United States Army vessel FS-369.[2] YMS-107 was removed from the Naval Register on 20 March 1946, and was transferred to the War Assets Administration in March 1948.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "USS YMS-107 (YMS-107)". uboat.net. Retrieved 30 September 2013.
- ^ "Case Number 34669". National Archives. Retrieved 30 September 2013.
- ^ "Mine Warfare Vessel Photo Archive, YMS-107". NavSource Online. Retrieved 30 September 2013.