USS Chauvenet (AGS-11)
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| Career (United States) |
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| Ordered: |
as YMS-195 |
| Laid down: |
3 April 1942 |
| Launched: |
10 August 1942 |
| Commissioned: |
20 March 1943 |
| Decommissioned: |
1946 |
| Struck: |
3 July 1946 |
| Fate: |
foundered, 1963 |
| General characteristics |
| Displacement: | 320 tons |
| Length: | 136 ft (41 m) |
| Beam: | 24 ft 6 in (7.47 m) |
| Draught: | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) |
| Speed: | 13 knots (24 km/h) |
| Complement: | 33 |
| Armament: | one 3” gun mount, two 20mm machine guns |
USS Chauvenet (AGS-11/YMS-195) was a YMS-1-class minesweeper of the YMS-135 subclass built for the United States Navy during World War II. She was constructed as USS YMS-195 at the Hiltebrant Dry Dock Company of Kingston, New York, and was laid down on 3 April 1942, launched on 10 August 1942, and commissioned on 20 March 1943.
On 20 March 1945, YMS-195 was reclassified as a survey ship and redesignated USS Chauvenet (AGS-11). After decommissioning, Chauvenet was sold to a British firm in 1947 and renamed Zipper. She was lost off South America in a storm in 1963.
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