USS Swan (AMS-37)

For other ships with the same name, see USS Swan.
A YMS class minesweeper
History
United States
NameUSS Swan
Orderedas Patrol Craft Sweeper, PCS-1438
BuilderGibbs Gas Engine Co., Jacksonville, Florida
Laid down12 August 1943
Launched5 April 1944
Commissioned14 October 1944
Decommissioned1 June 1946
Recommissioned8 November 1950
Decommissioned6 October 1955
RenamedSwan, 18 February 1947
Reclassified
  • YMS-470 (Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper), 27 September 1943
  • AMS-37 (Motor Minesweeper), 1 June 1946
  • MSC(O)-37 (Coastal Minesweeper (Old)), 1 August 1955
Stricken1 November 1959
FateSold to General Motors as a research vessel
General characteristics
Class and typeYMS-1 class minesweeper
Displacement320 long tons (325 t) full
Length136 ft (41 m)
Beam24 ft 6 in (7.47 m)
Draft6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Propulsion
  • 2 × 880 bhp (656 kW) General Motors 8-268A diesel engines
  • Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear
  • 2 shafts
Speed12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement33 officers and enlisted
Armament

The second USS Swan was a US Navy YMS-1-class minesweeper in commission from 1944 to 1946, and again from 1950 to 1955. She was laid down on 12 August 1943 by the Gibbs Gas Engine Co., at Jacksonville, Florida, as Patrol Craft, Sweeper, PCS-1438; and was redesignated Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper YMS-470, on 27 September 1943. Launched on 5 April 1944; the ship was completed and commissioned on 14 October 1944.