Laertes (AR-20) is flanked on her port by five minesweepers and on her starboard by five motor minesweepers at Sasebo, Japan, in 1952. USS Curlew (AMS-8) is the middle ship of the second group.
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS YMS-218 |
Builder | |
Laid down | 18 July 1942 |
Launched | 23 December 1942 |
Completed | 23 June 1943 |
Commissioned | 23 June 1943 |
Decommissioned | early 1947 |
Renamed | USS Curlew (AMS-8), 18 February 1947 |
Namesake | the curlew bird |
Recommissioned | June 1949 |
Reclassified | MSC(O)-8, 7 February 1955 |
Motto | Where the fleet goes, we've been! |
Fate | Transferred to South Korea, 6 January 1956 |
South Korea | |
Name | ROKS Geumhwa (MSC 519) |
Acquired | 6 January 1956 |
United States | |
Name | USS Curlew (MSC(O)-8) |
Stricken | 15 November 1974 |
Fate | disposed, c. 1977 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | YMS-135 subclass of YMS-1-class minesweepers |
Displacement | 270 t. |
Length | 136 ft (41 m) |
Beam | 24 ft 6 in (7.47 m) |
Draft | 8 ft (2.4 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 15 knots (28 km/h) |
Complement | 32 |
Armament |
USS Curlew (MSC(O)-8/AMS-8/YMS-218) was a YMS-1-class minesweeper of the YMS-135 subclass built for the United States Navy during World War II. She was the fourth U.S. Navy ship to be named for the curlew.