USS Curlew (AMS-8)
Laertes (AR-20) is flanked on her port by five minesweepers and on her starboard by five motor minesweepers at Sasebo, Japan, in 1952. USS Curlew (AMS-8) is the middle ship of the second group. |
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| Career (United States) | |
|---|---|
| Name: | USS YMS-218 |
| Builder: | J. N. Martinac Shipbuilding Co. Tacoma, Washington |
| Laid down: | 18 July 1942 |
| Launched: | 23 December 1942 |
| Completed: | 23 June 1943 |
| Commissioned: | 23 June 1943 |
| Decommissioned: | early 1947 |
| Renamed: | USS Curlew (AMS-8), 18 February 1947 |
| Namesake: | the curlew bird |
| Recommissioned: | June 1949 |
| Fate: | Transferred to South Korea, 6 January 1956 |
| Career (South Korea) | |
| Name: | ROKS Geumhwa (MSC 519) |
| Acquired: | 6 January 1956 |
| Career (U.S.) | |
| Name: | USS Curlew (MSC(O)-8) |
| Struck: | 15 November 1974 |
| Fate: | dissposed, c. 1977 |
| 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: | Two 880bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear two 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 Curlew (MSC(O)-8/AMS-8/YMS-218) was a YMS-1-class minesweeper of the YMS-135 subclass built for the United States Navy during World War II. She was the fourth U.S. Navy ship to be named for the curlew.
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Famous quotes containing the word curlew:
“The tide rises, the tide falls,
The twilight darkens, the curlew calls;
Along the sea-sands damp and brown
The traveler hastens toward the town,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)