USS Cardinal (AMS-4)
| Career (United States) | |
|---|---|
| Name: | USS YMS-197 |
| Builder: | Henry C. Grebe and Co. Chicago, Illinois |
| Laid down: | 27 October 1942 |
| Launched: | 8 May 1943 |
| Completed: | 31 July 1943 |
| Commissioned: | 28 August 1943, New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Decommissioned: | 6 August 1946 |
| Reclassified: | AMS-4, 17 February 1947 |
| Renamed: | Cardinal, 18 February 1947 |
| Namesake: | the cardinal bird |
| In service: | 1 December 1948, Naval Reserve training ship |
| Recommissioned: | 22 September 1950 |
| Decommissioned: | 18 November 1957 |
| Struck: | 1 November 1959 |
| Homeport: | Charleston, South Carolina (from 15 February 1954) |
| Honors and awards: |
1 battle star, World War II |
| Fate: | Transferred to Brazil, 15 August 1960 |
| Career (Brazil) | |
| Name: | Javari (M 11) |
| Acquired: | 15 August 1960 |
| Fate: | Scrapped in 1970 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & 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: | 2 × 880 bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines 2 shafts |
| Speed: | 15 knots (28 km/h) |
| Complement: | 32 |
| Armament: | 1 × 3"/50 caliber dual purpose gun mount 2 × 20 mm guns 2 × depth charge projectors |
USS Cardinal (MSC(O)-4/AMS-4/YMS-179) was a YMS-1-class minesweeper of the YMS-135 subclass built for the United States Navy during World War II. She was the third ship in the U.S. Navy to be named for the cardinal.
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