USS Barbet (AMS-41)
| Career (United States) | |
|---|---|
| Ordered: | as YMS-45 |
| Laid down: | 20 June 1941 |
| Launched: | 20 April 1942 |
| Commissioned: | 8 June 1942 |
| Decommissioned: | 5 August 1946 |
| In service: | 21 November 1950 |
| Out of service: | 17 June 1955 |
| Struck: | 1 November 1960 |
| Fate: | believed to have been scrapped |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 320 tons |
| Length: | 136 ft (41 m) |
| Beam: | 24 ft 6 in (7.47 m) |
| Draught: | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) |
| Speed: | 13 knots |
| Complement: | 33 |
| Armament: | one 3” gun mount, two 20mm machine guns |
USS Barbet (AMS-41/YMS-45) was a YMS-1-class auxiliary motor minesweeper acquired by the U.S. Navy for the task of removing mines that had been placed in the water to prevent ships from passing.
YMS 45 was laid down on 20 June 1941 at Brooklyn, New York, by the Wheeler Shipbuilding Corp.; launched on 20 April 1942; and commissioned on 8 June 1942, Lt.(jg.) LeRoy E. Rogers, Jr., USNR, in command.
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