USS YMS-50

USS YMS-50 was a United States Navy YMS-1-class auxiliary motor minesweeper during World War II. Laid down on 16 July 1941 at Wheeler Shipbuilding Corp., Whitestone, Long Island, New York, she was launched on 6 June 1942 and commissioned on 3 August.[1] Assigned to the South West Pacific Area she was damaged by a dive bomber while covering the landings during the battle of Arawe, New Britain on 17 December 1943.[2] Later while covering the landings during the battle of Balikpapan, Borneo she struck a mine on 18 June 1945 at 01°18′S 116°49′E and was scuttled by the light cruiser Denver.

History
Name:	USS YMS-50
Builder:	Wheeler Shipbuilding Corp, Whitestone, Long Island, New York
Laid down:	16 July 1941
Launched:	6 June 1942
Completed:	3 August 1942
Fate:	Sunk, 18 June 1945
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:	33
Armament:	1 × 3"/50 caliber gun 2 × 20 mm guns 2 × Depth charge tracks 2 × Depth charge projectors

Citations

1. "YMS-50". Retrieved 24 February 2010.
2. Morison (1958), p. 377.

References

• Morison, Samuel Eliot (1958). Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier, vol. 6 of History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Castle Books. ISBN 0-7858-1307-1.