USS Nightingale (AMS-50)
Minesweeper of the United States Navy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other ships with the same name, see USS Nightingale.
USS Nightingale (MSC(O)-50/AMS-50/YMS-290) was a YMS-1-class minesweeper of the YMS-135 subclass acquired by the U.S. Navy for the dangerous task of removing mines from minefields laid in the water to prevent ships from passing.
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A YMS-1-class minesweeper | |
History | |
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United States | |
Ordered | as YMS–290 |
Laid down | date unknown |
Launched | 27 February 1943 |
Commissioned | 17 July 1943 |
Decommissioned | March 1950 |
In service | February 1951 |
Out of service | 1 November 1959 |
Stricken | 1 November 1959 |
Fate | Sold for scrap |
General characteristics | |
Displacement | 270 tons |
Length | 136 ft (41 m) |
Beam | 25 ft (7.6 m) |
Draft | 8 ft (2.4 m) |
Speed | 13.0 knots |
Complement | 26 |
Armament | one 40 mm and four 20 mm machine guns |
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