USS YMS-477

History
United States
Name:	USS YMS-477
Builder:	Tacoma Boatbuilding Company, Tacoma, Washington
Laid down:	12 July 1943 as PCS-1453
Reclassified:	YMS-477, 27 September 1943
Launched:	6 November 1943
Commissioned:	10 July 1944
Stricken:	28 August 1946
Fate:	Sold in April 1947, fate unknown
General characteristics
Displacement:	320 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) (max.)
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 YMS-477 was a YMS-1-class minesweeper of the YMS-446 subclass built for the United States Navy during World War II. Originally ordered and laid down as USS PCS-1453 on 12 July 1943 by the Tacoma Boatbuilding Company of Tacoma, Washington, planned as a PCS-1376-class minesweeper, the vessel was re-designated YMS-477 of the YMS-1 class on 27 September 1943. The vessel was launched on 6 November and completed four days later. USS YMS-477 was commissioned soon after under the command of Lieutenant (junior grade) Russell V. Malo, USNR.

After wartime service, YMS-477 was decommissioned and then struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 28 August 1946. In April 1947, the former minesweeper was sold, but her ultimate fate is unknown.

References

Radigan, Joseph M. (2006). "YMS-477". NavSource.org. Retrieved 22 October 2009.

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