USS YMS-61
Decommissioned U.S. Navy ship
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Name | USS YMS-61 |
Commissioned | 23 June 1942 |
Decommissioned | 19 June 1946 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | YMS-1-class minesweeper |
Displacement | 320 long tons (325 t) |
Length | 136 ft (41 m) |
Beam | 24 ft 6 in (7.47 m) |
Draft | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) |
Propulsion | 2 × General Motors diesel engines, two shafts. |
Speed | 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
Complement | 32 |
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USS YMS-61 was a United States Navy YMS-1-class auxiliary motor minesweeper during World War II. She was laid down 23 September 1941 by the Gibbs Gas Engine Co. She was commissioned on 23 June 1942.[1] Assigned to the Caribbean she operated in the former Netherlands Antilles. She was struck from the Naval Registry on 19 June 1946.