At 1530I/2, camouflaged batteries at Cape Djoeata (in the north-west of Tarakan Island) sank USS YMS-481 and damaged USS YMS-334 and YMS-364. USS Cofer and USS LCS-8 and USS LCS-28 silenced the battery.

Struck from the Naval Register 2 June 1945. Displacement 270 t. Speed 15 kts. Propulsion: Two 880shp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, Snow and Knobstedt reduction gear, two shafts. There is no DANFS history available for YMS-481.

2020年8月11日 · On 2 May 1945, a carefully concealed Japanese shore battery of two 75mm guns at Tarakan opened up and hit three of the minesweepers in quick succession. Auxiliary motor minesweeper YMS-481 sank,...

The wood-hulled YMS proved to be one of the U.S. Navy's more durable and versatile types through a quarter-century of service, filling a variety of roles for a number of navies. All 481 ships of this type had the same general characteristics.

The YMS-1 class of auxiliary motor minesweepers was established with the laying down of YMS-1 on 4 March 1941. Some were later transferred to the United Kingdom as part of the World War II Lend-Lease pact between the two nations. One ship eventually made its way into the Royal Canadian Navy postwar.

A database of photographs, desctriptions and locations of WWII wreckage remaining in Pacific.

米安托诺玛号布雷舰，原为1938年建造的贵格会号客货两用船，1941年被军方征用为布雷舰. 被重创后的甘布尔号布雷驱逐舰，由老式驱逐舰改装而成. 扫雷驱逐舰（DMS）8艘. 沃斯穆斯（Wasmuth DMS-15，前克莱姆森级）：1942年12月29日在阿留申群岛因深水炸弹意外爆炸沉没. 佩里（Perry DMS-17，前克莱姆森级）：1944年9月13日在帕劳附近触雷沉没. 朗（Long DMS-12，前克莱姆森级）：1945年1月6日被日军自杀机击沉. 霍维（Hovey DMS-11，前克莱姆森 …

YMS class minesweepers were sectioned into three practically identical sub-classes, the basic difference between which consisted in number of funnels: on YMS1-134 they were two, on YMS135-445 and 481 one, and on remaining the funnel in general was absent. Britain additionally received 80 minesweepers (BYMS1-80), built specially for RN.

2018年6月3日 · YMS-481 Covers Page 1 (DATE RANGE) Postmarks. This section lists examples of the postmarks used by the ship. There should be a separate set of postmarks for each name and/or commissioning period. Within each set, the postmarks should be listed in order of their classification type.

2016年7月22日 · In Borneo – Tarakan Island – During that battle the ship in front of them, the YMS 481, blew up. This ship had been a companion ship with the 329 since they left CA and been sweeping with them since Sept 1944 …