&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:USS_YMS-374,_San_Francisco_Bay.jpg) USS YMS-374 in San Francisco Bay, late 1945 or early 1946. She was later renamed Kite (AMS-22)
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USS YMS-374 |
| Builder | |
| Laid down | 31 January 1943 |
| Launched | 17 February 1944 |
| Commissioned | 31 May 1944 |
| Renamed | USS Kite (AMS-22), 18 February 1947 |
| Namesake | the kite bird |
| Decommissioned | 18 February 1947 |
| Reclassified | MSC(O)-22, 7 February 1955 |
| Decommissioned | 6 January 1956 |
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| Fate | Transferred to South Korea, 6 January 1956 |
 South Korea | |
| Name | ROKS Kim Po (MSC-520) |
| Acquired | 6 January 1956 |
| Fate | Unknown |
| 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) |
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| Speed | 15 knots (28 km/h) |
| Complement | 32 |
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USS Kite (MSC(O)-22/AMS-22/YMS-374) was a YMS-1-class minesweeper of the YMS-135 subclass built for the United States Navy during World War II.