USS Bunting (AMS-3)
| Career (United States) | |
|---|---|
| Name: | USS YMS-170 |
| Builder: | Dachel-Carter Shipbuilding Corp. Benton Harbor, Michigan |
| Laid down: | 1 October 1942 |
| Launched: | 29 May 1943 |
| Commissioned: | 23 July 1943 at Algiers, Louisiana |
| Decommissioned: | 30 July 1946 |
| Renamed: | USS Bunting (AMS-3), 18 February 1947 |
| Namesake: | bunting |
| Recommissioned: | 18 July 1950 |
| Reclassified: | MHC-45, 7 February 1955 |
| Decommissioned: | 6 May 1960 |
| Struck: | 1 June 1960 |
| Fate: | Sunk as a target, between July and September 1962 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | YMS-135 subclass of YMS-1-class minesweepers |
| Displacement: | 320 (f.) tons |
| Length: | 136 ft 0 in (41.45 m) |
| Beam: | 24 ft 6 in (7.47 m) |
| Draft: | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 × 880 bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines 2 shafts |
| Speed: | 12 knots (22 km/h) |
| Complement: | 33 |
| Armament: | 1 × 3"/50 caliber gun mount 2 × 20 mm guns 2 × depth charge projectors |
USS Bunting (YMS-170/AMS-3/MHC-45) was a YMS-1-class minesweeper of the YMS-135 subclass in the United States Navy during World War II.
Famous quotes containing the word bunting:
“Revolution? Unscrew the flag-staff, wrap the bunting in the oil covers, and put the thing in the clothes-chest. Let the old lady bring you your house-slippers and untie your fiery red necktie. You always make revolutions with your mugs, your republic—nothing but an industrial accident.”
—Alfred Döblin (1878–1957)