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{{Short description|1942 class of American minesweepers}}

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{{Infobox ship class overview

| Name = ''YMS-1''

| Builders = 35 yacht builders<ref name=navsrcYMSidx>{{cite web | first = Gary P. | last = Priolo | url = http://www.navsource.orgnet/archives/11/19idx.htm | title = Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper (YMS), British Motor Minesweeper (BYMS) Index | work website= NavSource Online | publisher = NavSource Naval History | year = 2006 | access-date = 2007-12-20 }}</ref>

| Operators = *{{navynaval|United States}}

*{{navy|United Kingdom}}

*{{navy|France}}

*{{navy|Canada|name=Maritime Command}}

*{{navy|Poland}}

*{{navy|Japan}}

*{{navy|South Vietnam}}

| Class before =

| Class after = [[{{sclass|Atada-class |minesweeper|''Atada'' class]]4}} (Japan)

| Subclasses = ''YMS-136'', ''YMS-446''

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| In commission range = about March 1942<ref name=navsrcYMSidx/> – 13 December 1957<ref name=navsrcYMS327>{{cite web | first = Joseph M. | last = Radigan | url = http://www.navsource.orgnet/archives/11/19327.htm | title = Ruff (MSC<nowiki>[</nowiki>O<nowiki>]</nowiki> 54), ex-AMS-54, ex-YMS-327 | work website= NavSource Online | publisher = NavSource Naval History | year = 2006 | access-date = 2007-12-20 }}</ref>

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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.

==Design==

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*{{cite book|last=Blackman|first=Raymond V. B.|title=Jane's Fighting Ships 1962–63|year=1962|publisher=Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd|___location=London}}

*{{cite book| last=Le Masson|first=Henri |title=Navies of the Second World War: The French Navy Volume Two|year=1969|publisher=Macdonald & Co. |___location=London}}

* {{cite web | first = Gary P. | last = Priolo | url = http://www.navsource.orgnet/archives/11/19idx.htm | title = Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper (YMS), British Motor Minesweeper (BYMS) Index | work website= NavSource Online | publisher = NavSource Naval History | year = 2006 | access-date = 2007-12-19 }}

==External links==

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20011005083318/http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/#Anchor-Editoria-14954 Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]

* [http://www.navsource.orgnet/archives/11/19001.htm NavSource Online: Mine Warfare Vessel Photo Archive – YMS-1]

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