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USS Grouse (AMS-15)
Minesweeper of the United States Navy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other ships with the same name, see USS Grouse.
USS Grouse (AMS-15/YMS-321) was a YMS-1-class minesweeper of the YMS-135 subclass built for the United States Navy during World War II.
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Name | USS YMS-321 |
Builder | Al Larson Boat Building |
Laid down | 29 August 1942[1] |
Launched | 20 February 1943 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. H. Doty |
Completed | 25 October 1943[1] |
Commissioned | 25 October 1943 |
Renamed | USS Grouse (AMS-15), 18 February 1947 |
Namesake | the grouse bird |
Decommissioned | 12 September 1957 |
In service | 13 November 1958, Naval Reserve training ship |
Reclassified | MSC(O)-15, 7 February 1955 |
Stricken | 28 September 1963 |
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Class and type | YMS-135 subclass of YMS-1-class minesweepers |
Displacement | 270 tons |
Length | 136 ft (41 m) |
Beam | 24 ft 6 in (7.47 m) |
Draft | 8 ft (2.4 m) |
Propulsion | Two 500 shp (370 kW) General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, two shafts |
Speed | 13 knots (24 km/h) |
Complement | 33 |
Armament | One single 3 in (76 mm) gun mount |
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