USS Flamingo (AMS-11)

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Career (U.S.) United States Navy ensign
Name: USS YMS-238
Builder: Stadium Yacht Basin, Inc.
Cleveland, Ohio
Laid down: 11 May 1942
Launched: 12 September 1942
Acquired: 23 November 1942
Commissioned: 23 November 1942
Renamed: USS Flamingo (AMS-11), 18 February 1947
Namesake: the flamingo bird
Reclassified: MSC(O)-11, 7 February 1955
Struck: 1 November 1959
Fate: Unknown
General characteristics
Displacement: 270 tons
Length: 136 ft (41 m)
Beam: 24 ft 6 in (7.5 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 Flamingo (MSC(O)-11/AMS-11/YMS-238) 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 U.S. Navy ship to be named for the flamingo.

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Flamingo was laid down as YMS-238 on 11 May 1942 by Stadium Yacht Basin, Inc. of Cleveland, Ohio; launched, 12 September 1942; completed and commissioned on 23 November 1942.

On 10 November 1944, YMS-238 was damaged when ammunition ship Mount Hood exploded in Seeadler Harbor at Manus Island.[1]

YMS-238 was renamed and reclassified as USS Flamingo (AMS-11) on 18 February 1947. She was further reclassified as MSC(O)-11 on 7 February 1955.

Flamingo was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 November 1959. Her fate is unknown.

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  1. ^ Mount Hood. Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. United States Navy (2005-12-13). Retrieved on 2007-12-28.

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